Today, the Texas Senate unanimously passed an emergency bill to protect Texan resident consumers of state schools for the disabled from mistreatment, the likes which had been caught on camera and confirmed by state officials earlier in the day.

The school in question is located in Corpus Christi. State officials say that images and videos taken of various employees over different dates captured abuse at the school, and that all employees of the school who may have been involved have been temporarily suspended for the duration of the investigation.

The new bill, passed by the Senate this afternoon, establishes an ombudsman who would perform investigations in to injuries and deaths at all Texan institutions for the disabled — of which there are 13. Additionally, the bill implements an abuse telephone hotline for the disabled, and security cameras around the institutions across the state.

Corpus Christi police left no comment.

Fingerprints, background checks and random drug tests may be required for all state school employees.

“The abuse and neglect that has occurred in our state schools is inexcusable, these are people with serious disabilities. They need our protection.” said Jane Nelson (R-TX), the senator who devised the bill.

This measure is in response to an increasing series of complaints to the Texas education committee, about the safety and effectiveness of these schools. Texas’ local news sources have reported again-and-again a number of abuse situations, neglectful treatment and general mishandling of pupils of these schools.

A number of citizens worry that the schools are underfunded and doing a significantly poorer job than schools across the country — a concern that has not yet been addressed.

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