Bill Text: TX HB3670 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to access to the catalog of a public school's library materials.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-25 - Referred to Public Education [HB3670 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB3670-Introduced.html
  89R9694 RAL-D
 
  By: Isaac H.B. No. 3670
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to access to the catalog of a public school's library
  materials.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 33, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 33.023 to read as follows:
         Sec. 33.023.  LIBRARY CATALOG ONLINE DATABASE. A school
  district or open-enrollment charter school shall make the catalog
  of available library materials of each school library in the
  district or school publicly available in an online database.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026
  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, 2025.
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