Bill Text: TX HB757 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the placement and use of video cameras in self-contained classrooms or other settings providing special education services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-20 - Referred to Public Education [HB757 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB757-Introduced.html
  85R5265 MEW-D
 
  By: Keough H.B. No. 757
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the placement and use of video cameras in
  self-contained classrooms or other settings providing special
  education services.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 29.022(b), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (b)  A school or campus that places a video camera in a
  classroom or other special education setting in accordance with
  Subsection (a) shall operate and maintain the camera in the
  classroom or setting as long as the classroom or setting continues
  to satisfy the requirements under Subsection (a). If the classroom
  or other special education setting no longer satisfies the
  requirements under Subsection (a), the school or campus must
  immediately remove the video camera from the classroom or setting.
         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, 2017.
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