Bill Text: TX HB3720 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the prohibition on a political subdivision limiting or prohibiting a school activity or service in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to State Affairs [HB3720 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3720-Introduced.html
| 2023S0172-1 02/21/23 | ||
| By: Lozano | H.B. No. 3720 | |
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| relating to the prohibition on a political subdivision limiting or | ||
| prohibiting a school activity or service in response to the | ||
| COVID-19 pandemic. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 418, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 418.1087 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 418.1087. BAN ON COVID-19-RELATED SCHOOL CLOSURES OR | ||
| LIMITATIONS. The governing body of a political subdivision or its | ||
| presiding officer may not issue an order, enact an ordinance, or | ||
| take any other action that would limit or prohibit any school | ||
| activity or service in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. | ||
| 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. | ||
