Nearly 800 new laws are now in effect in the state of Texas.
FOX 26 Reporter Damali Keith has more on some of the laws taking effect.HB-3 requires an armed security officer at every school, which could be a police officer or a school employee who completed safety training that certifies them to carry a handgun on school premises.There’s also HB-3908.
Mrs. Posey is grateful for HB-3908 now in effect in Texas, making anti-drug curriculum for public schools mandatory for 6th through 12th grade students. "What the new law allows us to do is charge those cases, regardless of weight, as a murder, which is a first degree felony, which would expose that drug dealer to a five to 99 year punishment range," explains Prosecutor Donna Hansen with the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office.
She added, "Now what we’re saying to traffickers, and pimps and predators, is when you enter these areas these zones it is now going to be punishable by 25 to 99 years. Yes, traditionally it’s been schools, college campuses, and homeless youth facilities. Homeless children were really being preyed upon," Aluotto explains.
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