Bill Text: TX HB2454 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting discrimination by public institutions of higher education against faculty members and students based on their conduct of research relating to intelligent design.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-14 - Referred to Higher Education [HB2454 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2454-Introduced.html
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By: Zedler | H.B. No. 2454 |
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relating to prohibiting discrimination by public institutions of | ||
higher education against faculty members and students based on | ||
their conduct of research relating to intelligent design. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 51.979 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 51.979. PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON | ||
RESEARCH RELATED TO INTELLIGENT DESIGN. An institution of higher | ||
education may not discriminate against or penalize in any manner, | ||
especially with regard to employment or academic support, a faculty | ||
member or student based on the faculty member's or student's conduct | ||
of research relating to the theory of intelligent design or other | ||
alternate theories of the origination and development of organisms. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2011. |