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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to prohibiting public schools from purchasing library |
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materials from certain vendors. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 33, Education Code, is |
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amended by adding Section 33.027 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 33.027. PURCHASE OF LIBRARY MATERIALS FROM CERTAIN |
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VENDORS PROHIBITED. (a) In this section, "obscene" has the meaning |
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assigned by Section 43.21, Penal Code. |
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(b) If a school district or open-enrollment charter school |
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determines that a material in the catalog of a school library of the |
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district or school is obscene, the district or school shall report |
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to the agency as soon as practicable the material and the vendor |
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from which the district or school purchased the material. |
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(c) The agency shall maintain on the agency's Internet |
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website a list of vendors reported to the agency under Subsection |
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(b). The agency shall update the list not later than the 30th day |
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after the date the agency receives a report under Subsection (b). |
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(d) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may |
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not purchase materials from a vendor on the list described by |
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Subsection (c). |
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SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 |
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school year. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |