Bill Text: TX HB2012 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the display of the national motto in public school and institution of higher education classrooms.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 33-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Effective immediately [HB2012 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2012-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the display of the national motto in public school and institution of higher education classrooms.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 33-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Effective immediately [HB2012 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2012-Comm_Sub.html
88R8085 PRL-D | ||
By: Oliverson, Metcalf, Longoria, | H.B. No. 2012 | |
Harris of Anderson, Harrison, et al. |
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relating to the display of the national motto in public school and | ||
institution of higher education classrooms. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1.004, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
(d) A classroom teacher at a public elementary or secondary | ||
school or a teacher or professor at an institution of higher | ||
education as defined by Section 61.003 may not be prohibited from | ||
displaying in a classroom a poster or framed copy of the national | ||
motto that meets the requirements of this section. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2023. |