Bill Text: TX SB1857 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the wearing of Native American tribal regalia or objects of cultural significance at certain public school events.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Education [SB1857 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1857-Introduced.html
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By: West | S.B. No. 1857 |
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relating to the wearing of Native American tribal regalia or | ||
objects of cultural significance at certain public school events. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 25, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 25.902 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 25.902. NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBAL REGALIA AT CERTAIN | ||
SCHOOL EVENTS. (a) A school district may not prohibit a student who | ||
is a member of a Native American tribe from wearing traditional | ||
tribal regalia or objects that have cultural significance to that | ||
tribe, including feathers, beadwork, or tribal symbols, at a | ||
graduation ceremony or other official school event. | ||
(b) In this section, "member of a Native American tribe" | ||
means an individual who is enrolled or eligible to be enrolled as a | ||
member of a federally or state recognized American Indian or Alaska | ||
Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, rancheria, village, or | ||
community. | ||
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. |