New school safety laws seek to add armed guards, chaplains and mental health training. Here’s what you need to know.

Austin Police Department officer Cory Ehrler monitored the entrance to Ridgetop Elementary School in Austin on Dec. 17, 2012, a few days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. (Credit: Tamir Kalifa/The Texas Tribune)

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Almost a year after Texas’ deadliest school shooting, state lawmakers ordered school districts to secure schools with armed officers and to train more staff to identify students who may need mental health support under legislation set to become law in September.