Insights
Plain-language references on the standards, funding, and systems that decide how Texas facilities get secured. Written by the people who build them — checked against the statutes, dated, and kept current.
K-12 Reference · August 2026
Locked-by-default doors, the weekly inspection, vestibule-or-equivalent entrances, door numbering — what 19 TAC §61.1031 actually requires, in the order a facilities team meets it.
ReadK-12 Funding · August 2026
$33,540 per campus plus $20 per student, every year — what qualifies, what changed in 2025, and the SAFE grant deadline districts holding funds shouldn’t miss.
ReadDesign Reference · August 2026
When Texas requires one, when equivalent controls suffice, and what separates a real vestibule from two doors and a doorbell — including the four ways they fail.
ReadHealthcare Reference · August 2026
Chapter 331 requires every covered facility’s plan to address physical security — and newly covered facilities must comply by September 1, 2026. What the statute asks, and how the element gets met.
ReadCommercial Reference · August 2026
Not the locksmith bill — the rekeying project, the exposure window, and the questions you can’t answer afterward. The full cost anatomy, and what changes when keys become credentials.
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