Bill Text: TX HB1853 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to parental access to public school library Internet portals and restriction of access to certain public school library materials for the parent's student.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-07 - Referred to Public Education [HB1853 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1853-Introduced.html
| 88R6733 CXP-D | ||
| By: Shaheen | H.B. No. 1853 | |
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| relating to parental access to public school library Internet | ||
| portals and restriction of access to certain public school library | ||
| materials for the parent's student. | ||
| 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 INTERNET PORTAL | ||
| AND RESTRICTION OF STUDENT ACCESS TO CERTAIN LIBRARY MATERIALS. | ||
| (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Parent" includes a person standing in parental | ||
| relation. | ||
| (2) "School library Internet portal" means an Internet | ||
| portal that allows a student enrolled in a school district or | ||
| open-enrollment charter school to reserve or check out materials in | ||
| the catalog of a school library at the district or school. | ||
| (b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
| that maintains, or contracts with a third party to maintain, a | ||
| school library Internet portal shall ensure that the Internet | ||
| portal includes a feature for a parent of a student enrolled in the | ||
| district or school to: | ||
| (1) access the Internet portal; and | ||
| (2) designate a library material as a restricted | ||
| material that the parent's student may not be allowed to reserve, | ||
| check out, or otherwise access for use outside of the school | ||
| library. | ||
| (c) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
| not allow a student to reserve, check out, or otherwise use outside | ||
| the school library a library material the student's parent has | ||
| designated as a restricted material under Subsection (b). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2024-2025 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. Not later than September 1, 2024, each school | ||
| district and open-enrollment charter school shall ensure that each | ||
| school library Internet portal complies with Section 33.026, | ||
| Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
