Bill Text: TX HB1872 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the use of certain disease detection devices in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-11 - Referred to Public Education [HB1872 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1872-Introduced.html
87R5790 MWC-D | ||
By: Gates | H.B. No. 1872 |
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relating to the use of certain disease detection devices in public | ||
schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 38.043 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 38.043. CERTAIN MANDATORY DETECTION DEVICES | ||
PROHIBITED. (a) In this section: | ||
(1) "COVID-19" means the 2019 novel coronavirus | ||
disease. | ||
(2) "COVID-19 detection device" means a device worn on | ||
a student's body designed and used for the purpose of: | ||
(A) detecting the student's temperature; | ||
(B) detecting the presence of COVID-19 symptoms; | ||
or | ||
(C) tracing the student's contact with other | ||
individuals infected with COVID-19. | ||
(b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
not require a student to use a COVID-19 detection device at any time | ||
during the school day or at any activity sponsored by the district | ||
or school. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 | ||
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, 2021. |