Bill Text: TX HB1658 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to access to public school library materials by non-enrolled students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-12-18 - Filed [HB1658 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1658-Introduced.html
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| By: Cunningham | H.B. No. 1658 | |
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| relating to access to public school library materials by | ||
| non-enrolled students. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 33.023 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.023. ACCESS TO SCHOOL LIBRARY MATERIALS BY | ||
| NON-ENROLLED STUDENT. (a) In this section, "non-enrolled student" | ||
| means a student who receives instruction as described by Section | ||
| 29.916(a)(1) from a nonpublic school. | ||
| (b) The board of trustees of a school district and the | ||
| governing body of an open-enrollment charter school may adopt a | ||
| policy allowing a non-enrolled student who resides in the district | ||
| or in the geographic area served by the school to access the | ||
| district's or school's library materials in the same manner that the | ||
| district or school provides access to students enrolled in the | ||
| district or school. | ||
| (c) A policy adopted under Subsection (b) must require a | ||
| non-enrolled student who seeks access to a school district's or | ||
| open-enrollment charter school's library materials to establish | ||
| minimum proof of residency. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
