Bill Text: TX HB2790 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to access to social media and social networking websites on public school campuses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-13 - Referred to Youth Health & Safety, Select [HB2790 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2790-Introduced.html
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By: Dean | H.B. No. 2790 |
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relating to access to social media and social networking websites | ||
on public school campuses. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 38.0232 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 38.0232. ACCESS TO SOCIAL MEDIA AND NETWORKING | ||
WEBSITES PROHIBITED; EXCEPTION. (a) A school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school shall deploy technology to disable | ||
access to social media and social networking Internet websites on a | ||
digital device connected to an Internet service provided at a | ||
district or school campus, including on a digital device owned by | ||
an employee of the district or school while the device is connected | ||
to a campus Internet service. | ||
(b) The technology deployed by a school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school under Subsection (a) must provide | ||
for a method by which an employee of the school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school may access an otherwise restricted | ||
social media or social networking Internet website for an | ||
appropriate administrative or educational purpose. | ||
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. |