Bill Text: TX HJR182 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Joint Resolution 182

Introduced

Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment regarding public free schools and prohibiting certain state regulation regarding private educational settings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-12 - Left pending in committee [HJR182 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HJR182-Introduced.html

	88R12154 KJE-F

	By: Harris of Anderson	H.J.R. No. 182



	A JOINT RESOLUTION
	proposing a constitutional amendment regarding public free schools
	and prohibiting certain state regulation regarding private
	educational settings.
	BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 1, Article VII, Texas Constitution, is
	amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 1. (a) A general diffusion of knowledge being
	essential to the preservation of the liberties and rights of the
	people, it shall be the duty of the Legislature of the State to
	establish, ensure public oversight of, and make suitable provision
	for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public
	free schools.
	(b) Each child of school age who resides in this state is
	entitled to access, with the consent of the child's parent, a public
	free school.
	(c) The state may not:
	(1) abridge the right of a parent to place the parent's
	child in an educational setting of the parent's choice outside of
	the public free schools; or
	(2) regulate the provision of education in an
	educational setting for which the state does not provide support or
	maintenance.
	SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
	submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2023.
	The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
	proposition: "The constitutional amendment regarding public free
	schools and prohibiting certain state regulation regarding private
	educational settings."