Bill Text: TX HB1507 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting public school programs dedicated to celebrating or providing special instruction regarding a sexual preference; authorizing a fine.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-28 - Left pending in committee [HB1507 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1507-Introduced.html
| By: King of Hemphill | H.B. No. 1507 | |
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| relating to prohibiting public school programs dedicated to | ||
| celebrating or providing special instruction regarding a sexual | ||
| preference; authorizing a fine. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 29.936 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 29.936. CELEBRATIONS AND PROGRAMS RELATING TO SEXUAL | ||
| PREFERENCE PROHIBITED. (a) A school district or open-enrollment | ||
| charter school shall not organize or host a program dedicated to | ||
| celebrating or providing special instruction regarding a sexual | ||
| preference. | ||
| (b) The State Board for Educator Certification shall impose | ||
| sanctions against a district or school employee who organizes or | ||
| hosts a program described by Subsection (a) in violation of this | ||
| section, including: | ||
| (1) a fine of not less than $500 and not more than | ||
| $10,000; | ||
| (2) termination or suspension of a teacher's permit; | ||
| or | ||
| (3) any other sanction that the State Board for | ||
| Educator Certification deems appropriate. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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. | ||
