DALLAS — Lawmakers should expand the school marshal program, revisit truancy reforms and allocate more money to campus safety, according to a Senate report on how to make Texas schools safer after the massacre in Uvalde.
The state should also funnel more resources to promoting an anonymous threat reporting tool that few districts use, the special Senate committee also suggested.
But only one new gun restriction was recommended – making straw purchases a state crime – and the senators remained divided on raising the age of purchase of assault-style weapons, such as the gun used by the 18-year-old gunman to carry out the massacre.
