Bill Text: TX HB917 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to access to certain public school library materials.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-02 - Referred to Public Education [HB917 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB917-Introduced.html
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| By: Dutton | H.B. No. 917 | |
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| relating to access to certain public school library materials. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 33.025 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.025. ACCESS TO CERTAIN LIBRARY MATERIALS. (a) In | ||
| this section, "library material" means any book, record, file, or | ||
| other instrument or document listed in a school district's or | ||
| open-enrollment charter school's library catalog. | ||
| (b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
| not remove any library material from the district's or school's | ||
| library catalog. Instead of removing library materials, each | ||
| school district or open-enrollment charter school shall, in | ||
| consultation with district or school parents, teachers, and | ||
| administrators, adopt procedures to create a list of restricted | ||
| access library materials. | ||
| (c) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
| not allow a student to access library materials designated as | ||
| restricted access library materials under Subsection (b) in the | ||
| catalog of a school library at the district or school unless the | ||
| district or school first obtains written consent from the student's | ||
| parent or person standing in parental relation to the student | ||
| authorizing the student's access to that library material. | ||
| 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. | ||
