Bill Text: TX HB1390 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the requirement of a school district to notify a parent of curriculum or instructional material containing religion or religious values.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-18 - Filed [HB1390 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1390-Introduced.html
| By: Zwiener | H.B. No. 1390 | |
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| Relating to the requirement of a school district to notify a parent | ||
| of curriculum or instructional material containing religion or | ||
| religious values. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 26.010, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (c), (c-1), and (c-2) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) Before each school year, and a week prior to any | ||
| specific instruction, a school district shall provide through | ||
| personal delivery, mail, or electronic mail, written notice to a | ||
| parent of each student enrolled in the district of any curriculum, | ||
| instructional material, or school activity providing instruction | ||
| on religion or religious values, including references to: | ||
| (1) religious literature or texts; | ||
| (2) religious policies; | ||
| (3) religious sects or orders; | ||
| (4) religious figures; | ||
| (5) religious beliefs; | ||
| (6) religious holy days; | ||
| (7) a particular religion's impacts on history; or | ||
| (8) religious institutions, partnerships, | ||
| associations, corporations, or a department, division, or section | ||
| of one of those entities. | ||
| (c-1) A notice under this section must include: | ||
| (1) a statement informing the parent of the | ||
| requirements of instruction containing religion or religious | ||
| values under state law; | ||
| (2) a detailed description of the content of the | ||
| district's instruction containing religion or religious values and | ||
| a general schedule on which the instruction will be provided; | ||
| (3) a statement of the parent's right to: | ||
| (A) at the parent's discretion, review or | ||
| purchase a copy of curriculum materials as provided by Section | ||
| 26.006 and Section 26.0061; | ||
| (B) remove the student from any part of the | ||
| district's instruction containing religion or religious values | ||
| without subjecting the student to disciplinary action, academic | ||
| penalty, or other sanction imposed by the district or the student's | ||
| school; and | ||
| (C) use the grievances procedure as provided by | ||
| Section 26.011 concerning a complaint of a violation of this | ||
| section. | ||
| (c-2) A parent may use the grievance procedure adopted under | ||
| Section 26.011 concerning a complaint or a violation of this | ||
| section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
