Cornyn and his colleagues crafted the bill in response to recent mass shootings, including at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
Gutierrez’s district includes Robb Elementary School, the site where a teenage gunman took the lives of 19 children and two teachers.
Republican delegates jeered Sen. John Cornyn in Houston last week as he worked on legislation with Democrats to reform U.S. gun laws.
Col. Steven McCraw, director of the Department of Public Safety, took a grim inventory of police missteps during the Robb Elementary School shooting.
After the shocking tragedy in Uvalde, gun policy has become even more of a foil in the Texas gubernatorial race.
The commissioners courts in two of the most populous counties in the state passed resolutions asking for the governor to call a special session to address gun violence in schools.
Chief Pete Arredondo did not consider himself the on-scene commander as he responded to the 18-year-old gunman who killed 21 people.
The Investigative Committee on the Robb Elementary Shooting will have additional hearings with testimony heard in executive session.
Sen. Roland Gutierrez stated that Uvalde school district police Chief Pete Arredondo had no radio with him at the school during the shooting.
Texas law makes several security measures available to schools but requires almost none of them to be enacted.
Speaker Phelan and Lt. Gov. Patrick respond to the governor’s call for new committees to address the tragedy in Uvalde.
The letter lists five topics for the committees to review: school safety, mental health, social media, police training, and firearm safety.
