The School Drill Clipboard Bill

The receipt

SB 57's official Texas Legislature caption says it relates to "provisions and plans by public schools to ensure the safety of individuals with disabilities or impairments during a mandatory school drill or a disaster or emergency situation." The TLO history page shows the bill was signed by the governor on June 20, 2025.

That is a real public-record item. Students with disabilities absolutely belong in emergency planning.

The Patrick problem

Here is the Dan Patrick trick: take a serious human need, route it through Austin, and call the clipboard leadership.

A plan can matter. So can trained staff, working communication, time to practice, and a school culture that treats disabled students as students - not as an afterthought to be discovered when the alarm goes off.

Receipts, not fairy dust

The same-run sources verify the caption, enrolled text, and signed status. They do not prove that every campus has enough staff, that every drill will work, or that emergency readiness improved after passage.

So the claim stays honest: SB 57 is the school-drill plan bill, not a magic safety force field with laminate edges.

Vote past the clipboard

Texas can do practical school safety without turning every classroom problem into another Patrick-branded form stack.

Vikki Goodwin is the better direction: less culture-war theater, more practical government that remembers the kids who have to live with the policy.