(a) A school district, open-enrollment charter school, public junior college, or private school shall:
  (1) submit and receive approval for an application to appoint a person as a school marshal;
  (2) upon authorization, notify the commission using approved format prior to appointment;
  (3) report to the commission, within seven days, when a person previously authorized to act as a school marshal is no longer employed with the appointing entity;
  (4) report to the commission, within seven days, when a person previously authorized to act as a school marshal is no longer authorized to do so by the appointing entity, commission standards, another state agency, or under other law; and
  (5) immediately report to the commission a school marshal’s violation of any commission standard, including the discharge of a firearm carried under the authorization of this chapter outside of a training environment.
(b) An appointing entity shall not appoint or employ an ineligible person as a school marshal.
(c) For five years, the appointing entity must retain documentation that it has met all requirements under law in a format readily accessible to the commission. This requirement does not relieve an appointing entity from retaining all other relevant records not otherwise listed.
(d) The effective date of this section is May 1, 2018.

Source Note: The provisions of this §227.1 adopted to be effective February 1, 2014, 38 TexReg 9620; amended to be effective February 1, 2016, 41 TexReg 284; amended to be effective May 1, 2018, 43 TexReg 1881