Bill Text: TX HB1938 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the protection of students from sexual grooming.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-08 - Referred to Public Education [HB1938 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1938-Introduced.html
| By: Stucky | H.B. No. 1938 | |
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| relating to the protection of students from sexual grooming. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Add a new Subchapter H, Chapter 38, Education | ||
| Code, to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER H. SEXUAL GROOMING PROTECTION ACT | ||
| Sec. 38.401. SEXUAL GROOMING PROTECTION. (a) | ||
| Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, as provided by | ||
| this subchapter a parent who determines that their child is | ||
| subjected to sexual grooming at a public school is entitled to the | ||
| right to protect their child from such sexual grooming by selecting | ||
| another school, public or private, for their child in which event | ||
| Chapter 48 funding for the education of that child shall flow with | ||
| the child to the new school selected by the parents. | ||
| Sec. 38.402. DEFINITION. Sexual Grooming is defined as any | ||
| effort to desensitize children to sexual experiences, or to | ||
| normalize sexual relationships with adults or children of the same | ||
| or opposite sex. | ||
| Sec. 38.403. ACCREDITED PRIVATE SCHOOL PARTICIPATION (a) | ||
| The commissioner shall adopt rules to implement the program. Rules | ||
| shall be designed to prohibit fraud and abuse. The rules may not in | ||
| any form effect or attempt to control the programs, curricula, or | ||
| other operations of private schools who participate in the program | ||
| other than rules for accredited private schools which were in | ||
| effect January 1, 2023. | ||
| (b) No federal funds or Available School Funds shall be used | ||
| to fund programs under this subsection. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
