Bill Text: TX HB2949 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to Celebrate Veterans Week in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-18 - Filed [HB2949 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB2949-Introduced.html
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| By: Curry | H.B. No. 2949 | |
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| relating to Celebrate Veterans Week in public schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 29.9076 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 29.9076. CELEBRATE VETERANS WEEK. (a) To educate | ||
| students about the sacrifices made by veterans to protect the | ||
| freedoms enjoyed in this country, the week in which November 11 | ||
| falls is designated as Celebrate Veterans Week in public schools. | ||
| For purposes of this subsection, Sunday is considered the first day | ||
| of the week. | ||
| (b) The agency, in cooperation with other state agencies who | ||
| voluntarily participate, may promote Celebrate Veterans Week | ||
| through a coordinated program. Nothing in this subsection shall | ||
| give any other state agency the authority to develop a program that | ||
| provides instruction unless funds are specifically appropriated to | ||
| that agency for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026 | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
