Bill Text: TX SB1601 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting municipal libraries that host certain events from receiving state or other public funding.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-04-17 - Referred to State Affairs [SB1601 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1601-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Hughes S.B. No. 1601
(In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2023; March 16, 2023, read
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
March 30, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 2; March 30, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to prohibiting municipal libraries that host certain
events from receiving state funding.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 315, Local Government Code, is amended
by adding Section 315.0051 to read as follows:
Sec. 315.0051. PROHIBITED EVENTS AT MUNICIPAL LIBRARIES. A
municipal library may not receive state funds if the library hosts
an event at which a man presenting as a woman or a woman presenting
as a man reads a book or a story to a minor for entertainment and the
person being dressed as the opposite gender is a primary component
of the entertainment. State funds for the municipal library shall
be denied for the fiscal year following the year in which the
library hosts an event described by this section.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an event that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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