Bill Text: TX SB762 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the display of flags in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-10 - Filed [SB762 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB762-Introduced.html
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| By: Campbell | S.B. No. 762 | |
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| relating to the display of flags in public schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 1, Education Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Section 1.0031 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 1.0031. DISPLAY OF FLAGS. (a) In this section, | ||
| "display" means to exhibit or place an object anywhere students may | ||
| see the object. | ||
| (b) A public elementary or secondary school may not display | ||
| or permit an employee, agent, volunteer, or student to display on | ||
| school property any flag other than the following flags: | ||
| (1) the United States flag; | ||
| (2) the state flag; | ||
| (3) a flag that cannot be disturbed or altered due to | ||
| archeological or historical preservation as determined by the Texas | ||
| Historical Commission; | ||
| (4) the Prisoner of War or Missing in Action flag; | ||
| (5) a flag that represents an Indian tribe, as defined | ||
| by 25 U.S.C. Section 5304(e); | ||
| (6) a flag that represents a political subdivision; | ||
| (7) a flag that represents any unit, branch, or other | ||
| division of the armed forces of the United States, including a | ||
| Reserve Officers' Training Corps program; | ||
| (8) a flag that represents a foreign country or | ||
| political subdivision of that country; | ||
| (9) a flag that represents a college or university; | ||
| (10) a flag that is displayed temporarily as part of | ||
| the required curriculum under Section 28.002; | ||
| (11) the school's official flag; or | ||
| (12) the flag of an organization authorized to use a | ||
| school building, provided that the flag is only displayed during | ||
| the authorized time and at the authorized location specified for | ||
| the organization's use of school property. | ||
| (c) Notwithstanding any other law, a parent or guardian of a | ||
| child who is enrolled, or eligible to enroll, in a school that | ||
| violates Subsection (b) and fails to provide notice of the remedy | ||
| implemented by the school within the period prescribed by | ||
| Subsection (e) may bring an action against the school to obtain an | ||
| injunction to comply with this section. | ||
| (d) Before bringing an action under Subsection (c), the | ||
| parent or guardian must provide written notice of the alleged | ||
| violation that is the basis for the action to the school and allow | ||
| the school 10 business days from receipt of the notice to remedy the | ||
| violation. | ||
| (e) Not later than the 10th business day after receiving a | ||
| written notice under Subsection (d), the school shall provide in | ||
| writing to the parent or guardian notice of the remedy the school | ||
| implemented. | ||
| SECTION 2. It is the intent of the legislature that every | ||
| provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word | ||
| in this Act, and every application of the provisions in this Act to | ||
| every person, group of persons, or circumstances, is severable from | ||
| each other. If any application of any provision in this Act to any | ||
| person, group of persons, or circumstances is found by a court to be | ||
| invalid for any reason, the remaining applications of that | ||
| provision to all other persons and circumstances shall be severed | ||
| and may not be affected. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2026. | ||
