Bill Text: TX SB18 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting municipal libraries that host certain events from receiving state or other public funding.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 21)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2025-05-27 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB18 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB18-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Hughes, et al. | S.B. No. 18 | |
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| relating to prohibiting municipal libraries that host certain | ||
| events from receiving state or other public funding. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 315, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 315.0051 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 315.0051. PROHIBITED EVENTS AT MUNICIPAL LIBRARIES. A | ||
| municipal library may not receive state or other public funds if the | ||
| library hosts an event at which a man presenting as a woman or a | ||
| woman presenting as a man reads a book or a story to a minor for | ||
| entertainment and the person being dressed as the opposite gender | ||
| is a primary component of the entertainment. The state and a | ||
| political subdivision of the state may not provide funds to the | ||
| municipal library for the fiscal year following the year in which | ||
| the library hosts an event described by this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to an event that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
