Bill Text: TX HB1433 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting the board of trustees of an independent school district from disparate treatment based on an organization's religious nature in allowing access to school campuses after school hours.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-26 - Referred to Public Education [HB1433 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1433-Introduced.html
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| By: Flynn | H.B. No. 1433 | |
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| relating to prohibiting the board of trustees of an independent | ||
| school district from disparate treatment based on an organization's | ||
| religious nature in allowing access to school campuses after school | ||
| hours. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 11.1651 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 11.1651. PROHIBITION OF DISPARATE TREATMENT BASED ON | ||
| RELIGIOUS NATURE OF ORGANIZATION IN ALLOWING ACCESS TO SCHOOL | ||
| CAMPUSES AFTER SCHOOL HOURS. If the board of trustees of an | ||
| independent school district allows noncurricular community | ||
| organizations not organized or operated primarily by students | ||
| access to district school campuses after school hours, the district | ||
| must provide religious organizations the same access to school | ||
| campuses after school hours as is given to other noncurricular | ||
| organizations without discrimination based on any religious nature | ||
| of an organization or on an organization's activities on campus, | ||
| including religious expression. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
