Bill Text: TX SB326 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the procedure for determining whether a student's violation of a public school's or public institution of higher education's student code of conduct was motivated by antisemitism.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-13 - Filed [SB326 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB326-Introduced.html
| 89R1592 CXP-D | ||
| By: King | S.B. No. 326 | |
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| relating to the procedure for determining whether a student's | ||
| violation of a public school's or public institution of higher | ||
| education's student code of conduct was motivated by antisemitism. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 37, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 37.0095 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 37.0095. ANTISEMITISM: DISCIPLINARY ACTION. In taking | ||
| disciplinary action against a student for behavior that violates | ||
| the student code of conduct adopted under Section 37.001 and that | ||
| may reasonably be determined to have been motivated by | ||
| antisemitism, a school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
| shall consider the definition of antisemitism provided by Section | ||
| 448.001, Government Code, including the examples referenced in that | ||
| term, as instructive in determining whether the student's behavior | ||
| was motivated by antisemitism. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 51.9791 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.9791. ANTISEMITISM: DISCIPLINARY ACTION. (a) In | ||
| this section, "institution of higher education" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
| (b) In taking disciplinary action against a student for | ||
| behavior that violates the institution's student code of conduct | ||
| and that may reasonably be determined to have been motivated by | ||
| antisemitism, an institution of higher education shall consider the | ||
| definition of antisemitism provided by Section 448.001, Government | ||
| Code, including the examples referenced in that term, as | ||
| instructive in determining whether the student's behavior was | ||
| motivated by antisemitism. | ||
| SECTION 3. (a) Section 37.0095, Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies beginning with the 2025-2026 school year. | ||
| (b) Section 51.9791, Education Code, as added by this Act, | ||
| applies beginning with the 2025-2026 academic year. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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, 2025. | ||
