Bill Text: TX HB285 | 2013-2014 | 83rd 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.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-17 - No action taken in committee [HB285 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB285-Introduced.html
| 83R1793 KJM-D | ||
| By: Zedler | H.B. No. 285 | |
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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, 2013. | ||
