Bill Text: TX SB419 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to parental access to a public school's library catalog and consent for student access to certain public school library materials.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-15 - Referred to Education [SB419 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB419-Introduced.html

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88R4240 DIO-D
By: Paxton S.B. No. 419

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to parental access to a public school's library catalog
and consent for student access to certain public school library
materials.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 33, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 33.026 to read as follows:
Sec. 33.026. PARENTAL ACCESS TO LIBRARY CATALOG AND CONSENT
FOR STUDENT ACCESS TO CERTAIN LIBRARY MATERIALS. (a) In this
section, "library material" means any book, record, file, or other
instrument or document listed in a school district's library
catalog.
(b) A school district shall adopt procedures for:
(1) providing parental access to the catalog of
available library materials at each school library in the district;
and
(2) a parent to provide to the district a list of
library materials that the parent's student may not be allowed to
check out or otherwise access for use outside of the school library.
(c) In adopting procedures under Subsection (b), a school
district shall allow for a parent to provide a list of library
materials, as described by that subsection, through:
(1) an electronic or physical form; or
(2) use of the school's online library catalog.
(d) A school district may not allow a student to check out or
otherwise use outside the school library a library material the
student's parent has included in a list submitted under Subsection
(c).
SECTION 2. Section 12.104(b), Education Code, as amended by
Chapters 542 (S.B. 168), 887 (S.B. 1697), 915 (H.B. 3607), 974 (S.B.
2081), and 1046 (S.B. 1365), Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2021, is reenacted and amended to read as follows:
(b) An open-enrollment charter school is subject to:
(1) a provision of this title establishing a criminal
offense;
(2) the provisions in Chapter 554, Government Code;
and
(3) a prohibition, restriction, or requirement, as
applicable, imposed by this title or a rule adopted under this
title, relating to:
(A) the Public Education Information Management
System (PEIMS) to the extent necessary to monitor compliance with
this subchapter as determined by the commissioner;
(B) criminal history records under Subchapter C,
Chapter 22;
(C) reading instruments and accelerated reading
instruction programs under Section 28.006;
(D) accelerated instruction under Section
28.0211;
(E) high school graduation requirements under
Section 28.025;
(F) special education programs under Subchapter
A, Chapter 29;
(G) bilingual education under Subchapter B,
Chapter 29;
(H) prekindergarten programs under Subchapter E
or E-1, Chapter 29, except class size limits for prekindergarten
classes imposed under Section 25.112, which do not apply;
(I) extracurricular activities under Section
33.081;
(J) discipline management practices or behavior
management techniques under Section 37.0021;
(K) health and safety under Chapter 38;
(L) the provisions of Subchapter A, Chapter 39;
(M) public school accountability and special
investigations under Subchapters A, B, C, D, F, G, and J, Chapter
39, and Chapter 39A;
(N) the requirement under Section 21.006 to
report an educator's misconduct;
(O) intensive programs of instruction under
Section 28.0213;
(P) the right of a school employee to report a
crime, as provided by Section 37.148;
(Q) bullying prevention policies and procedures
under Section 37.0832;
(R) the right of a school under Section 37.0052
to place a student who has engaged in certain bullying behavior in a
disciplinary alternative education program or to expel the student;
(S) the right under Section 37.0151 to report to
local law enforcement certain conduct constituting assault or
harassment;
(T) a parent's right to information regarding the
provision of assistance for learning difficulties to the parent's
child as provided by Sections 26.004(b)(11) and 26.0081(c) and (d);
(U) establishment of residency under Section
25.001;
(V) school safety requirements under Sections
37.108, 37.1081, 37.1082, 37.109, 37.113, 37.114, 37.1141, 37.115,
37.207, and 37.2071;
(W) the early childhood literacy and mathematics
proficiency plans under Section 11.185;
(X) the college, career, and military readiness
plans under Section 11.186; [and]
(Y) [(X)] parental options to retain a student
under Section 28.02124; and
(Z) requirements related to parental access to
the library catalog and consent for student use of school library
materials under Section 33.026.
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
school year.
SECTION 4. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
over another Act of the 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023,
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
codes.
SECTION 5. 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.