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n5wd wrote:

Mel wrote:But doesn't MPA prohibit a concealed handgun within 1,000' of a school?
CHL, of course, is a different thing.

The original question was posed on behalf of someone who intends to get her CHL, on a forum devoted to CHL topics, therefore I'd think it safe to say that the federal GFSZ isn't germane to the answer.

But, for everyone else... Remember that the GFSZ is primarily a sentence enhancer, to increase the penalty of some found to have committed a federal crime near the school zone (like drug-related murder, etc.).

n5wd wrote:

drummer0415 wrote: 1)It is state law that employees of the school cannot keep a gun in their vehicle, even if they have a CHL
2)It is up to the district policy whether employees of the school can keep a gun in their vehicle, CHL or not.
Can anyone definitely clear this up for me?

The MPA (Motorist Protection Act), the law that lets average Joe Blow Texan carry a concealed firearm in his car does not force a school district to allow firearms on their property - but it does not prevent a school district from NOT prohibiting the firearm in the car, either. It's up to each individual school district to enact policies for their employees, but most of the school districts just take the boilerplate sample district policies from the TEA and enact them as their policies (which is why TEA publishes those policies as model policies). In other words, a district CAN prohibit their employees from having a gun in their car as a matter of district policy while the car is on district property (including parking lots) IF they choose to do so, but most districts don't. And your quote, below, is why they don't: