Bill Text: TX SB16 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the purpose of public institutions of higher education and a prohibition on compelling students enrolled at those institutions to adopt certain beliefs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-04-24 - Referred to Higher Education [SB16 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB16-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the purpose of public institutions of higher education and a prohibition on compelling students enrolled at those institutions to adopt certain beliefs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-04-24 - Referred to Higher Education [SB16 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB16-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Hughes | S.B. No. 16 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2023; March 13, 2023, read | ||
| first time and referred to Committee on Education; March 30, 2023, | ||
| reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 3; March 30, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 16 | By: Middleton | |
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| relating to the purpose of public institutions of higher education | ||
| and a prohibition on compelling students enrolled at those | ||
| institutions to adopt certain beliefs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 3, Education Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Chapter 50 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 50. HIGHER EDUCATION PURPOSE | ||
| Sec. 50.001. HIGHER EDUCATION PURPOSE. A public | ||
| institution of higher education must be committed to creating an | ||
| environment of: | ||
| (1) intellectual inquiry and academic freedom so that | ||
| all students are equipped for participation in the workforce and | ||
| the betterment of society; and | ||
| (2) intellectual diversity so that all students are | ||
| respected and educated regardless of race, sex, or ethnicity or | ||
| social, political, or religious background or belief. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 51.982 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.982. PROHIBITION ON COMPELLING CERTAIN | ||
| BELIEFS. (a) In this section, "institution of higher education" | ||
| has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
| (b) A faculty member of an institution of higher education | ||
| may not compel or attempt to compel a student enrolled at the | ||
| institution to adopt a belief that any race, sex, or ethnicity or | ||
| social, political, or religious belief is inherently superior to | ||
| any other race, sex, ethnicity, or belief. | ||
| 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. | ||
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