Bill Text: TX SB1517 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting certain academic boycotts of foreign countries by public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1517 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1517-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1517 | ||
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| relating to prohibiting certain academic boycotts of foreign | ||
| countries by public institutions of higher education. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 51.987 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.987. CERTAIN ACADEMIC BOYCOTTS OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES | ||
| PROHIBITED. (a) In this section, "institution of higher | ||
| education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
| (b) Subject to Subsection (c), an institution of higher | ||
| education may not implement an academic boycott of a foreign | ||
| country that would prevent a student or faculty member of the | ||
| institution from: | ||
| (1) studying or conducting research in or about the | ||
| country; or | ||
| (2) interacting with the country's scholars or | ||
| representatives. | ||
| (c) An institution of higher education may implement an | ||
| academic boycott described by Subsection (b) of a foreign country | ||
| included by the United States Department of State on a list of state | ||
| sponsors of terrorism. The boycott may not prevent a student | ||
| enrolled at the institution from studying or being educated about | ||
| the country. | ||
| (d) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall | ||
| adopt rules as necessary to implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1517 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 26, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays 4; and that | ||
| the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 25, 2023, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 27, Nays 4. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1517 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 22, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 103, | ||
| Nays 26, sixteen present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
