Bill Text: TX SB451 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the purchase, adoption, and use of instructional materials by public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-21 - Filed [SB451 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB451-Introduced.html
| 89R1523 TSS-D | ||
| By: Middleton | S.B. No. 451 | |
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| relating to the purchase, adoption, and use of instructional | ||
| materials by public schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 31.0211(f), Education Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (f) Funds allotted under this section may not be used to | ||
| purchase instructional material that: | ||
| (1) contains obscene or harmful content or would | ||
| otherwise cause the school district to which the funds were | ||
| allotted to be unable to submit the certification required under | ||
| Section 31.1011(a)(1)(B); or | ||
| (2) is on the list of rejected instructional materials | ||
| maintained by the State Board of Education under Section 31.022(a). | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 31, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 31.024 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 31.024. LIMITATION ON THE ADOPTION AND USE OF | ||
| INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL. A school district may not adopt or | ||
| otherwise use instructional material included on the list of | ||
| rejected instructional materials maintained by the State Board of | ||
| Education under Section 31.022(a). | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 31.073, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (b) and amending Subsection (c) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
| only adopt or otherwise use an open education resource | ||
| instructional material that is not included on the list of rejected | ||
| instructional materials maintained by the State Board of Education | ||
| under Section 31.022(a). | ||
| (c) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
| adopt open education resource instructional material that complies | ||
| with Subsection (b) at any time. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 31.106, Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 31.106. USE OF LOCAL FUNDS. In addition to any | ||
| instructional material selected under this chapter, a school | ||
| district or open-enrollment charter school may use local funds to | ||
| purchase any instructional materials not included on the list of | ||
| rejected instructional materials maintained by the State Board of | ||
| Education under Section 31.022(a). | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 6. 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. | ||
