The school safety allotment
House Bill 3 created a recurring school safety allotment of roughly $10 per student and $15,000 per campus, money districts can direct toward the safety improvements the law now expects.
Texas School Safety Mapping
Texas requires an accurate map of every campus, and the state funds it.
House Bill 3 requires Texas districts to keep an accurate map of each campus, with floor plans, access control, and exterior door numbering. The state pairs that requirement with real money: a school safety allotment and the SAFE grant cycle. We produce the deliverable underneath the mandate, and we deliver more than a static map. From one capture of the campus you get the walk-through-verified critical incident map and a live responder-ready system built on top of it.
One call tells you whether your district qualifies, how the responder-ready system works, and where the funding fits.
What does Texas House Bill 3 require?
House Bill 3, passed in 2023, is the Texas school safety law that raised the bar on campus security across the state. Among its requirements, districts must maintain an accurate map of each campus. The mapping expectation is concrete: floor plans that match the building, access control, and exterior door numbering, so that responders arriving at a campus they have never entered can navigate it and reach a numbered door without guessing.
An accurate map is only accurate if it matches the building as it stands today. Doors get renumbered, wings get added, portables arrive. That is why the map is verified on foot against the real campus, not trusted from an old set of drawings. Our guide to how critical incident mapping works lays out exactly what a responder-ready map contains and why every property of it exists.
What money does Texas put behind it?
Texas is one of the states where the funding is real and on the books. Amounts and grant cycles change every legislative session, so treat these as the current picture and confirm the live cycle with the Texas Education Agency before you apply.
The SAFE grant cycle
Texas funded a Safety and Facilities Enhancement (SAFE) grant cycle of roughly $800 million to help districts meet the new safety and facility standards, on top of an approximately $1.1 billion one-time appropriation to the state education agency.
Where mapping fits
HB 3 names campus mapping as a requirement, so an accurate, verified map is exactly the kind of work this funding is meant to support. Your safety office confirms eligibility and draws down the money, and we are glad to show your team where the mapping deliverable fits.
For the full, sourced picture of which states mandate and fund critical incident mapping, see our school safety mapping funding page.
What do we actually do for a Texas district?
We are the field-capture and modeling company. We come to the campus, scan the interior and exterior with survey-grade equipment while the school stays open, and walk every space to verify it against the building as it really is. From that single capture, we produce the accurate, gridded, labeled critical incident map that House Bill 3 expects, formatted to drop into the public-safety systems your local agencies already use.
Then we deliver the part a static PDF cannot. On top of the same verified capture, we bring you a live 3D digital twin of the campus, a navigable model responders can move through floor by floor, keyed to the same real doors and hallway names as the map. The solution integrates with leading AI weapon-detection technology that watches the cameras a school already has and flags a firearm before a shot is fired. A trained person confirms the alert, and the exact location is pushed to police, fire, and EMS on the 3D model in seconds, with a direct path to the room. The map never goes stale, because we re-verify it on the yearly cycle the mandate expects.
An illustrated walkthrough of how the responder-ready system works: the campus digital twin, AI weapon detection on the cameras a school already has, and the exact threat location pushed to first responders.
How does one capture become a responder-ready system?
Step 1
Scan
We capture the buildings and grounds in one visit, quietly, around class schedules, while the campus stays open.
Step 2
Verify on foot
We walk every space and confirm each door number, room label, hazard, and shutoff against the real building.
Step 3
Build the live twin
The verified capture becomes the gridded map and a navigable 3D digital twin, keyed to your real doors and hallways.
Step 4
Connect and route
Weapon-detection integration flags a firearm on existing cameras, and the exact location is pushed to responders in seconds.
Is this a funded opportunity for your district?
In Texas, the requirement and the money both exist. House Bill 3 names campus mapping, and the school safety allotment and SAFE grant put dollars behind the safety work districts now have to do. That is a genuine, current opportunity, not a maybe.
We will still give you the honest version. We are not a grant firm and we do not draw down the money for you. Eligibility, the live grant cycle, and how a given cost is coded are decisions your safety office makes with the funding agency, and an accurate, verified map is a reasonable expense to put in front of them. We produce the deliverable and deliver the responder-ready system on top of it. Confirming the funding fit is a short conversation, and we are glad to be on it.
How is it priced?
Every campus is a different size, layout, and number of buildings, so we quote per campus rather than post a flat number that would be wrong for most districts. Tell us the district or campus, roughly how many buildings, and where you are in your mapping cycle, and we scope and price the work directly.
See if your Texas district qualifies.
Call and ask for Brent. He will tell you whether your district qualifies, how the live responder-ready system works, and where House Bill 3 and the SAFE grant fit for your campuses.
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Questions about Texas mapping or funding? Reach us at info@scanningandmodeling.com or (772) 210-4584.