Bill Text: TX SB19 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring the disclosure of certain information regarding public school teaching materials and activities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-07 - Filed [SB19 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB19-Introduced.html
| By: Hall | S.B. No. 19 | |
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| relating to requiring the disclosure of certain information | ||
| regarding public school teaching materials and activities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 26, Education Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Section 26.0061 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 26.0061. REQUIRED DISCLOSURE REGARDING TEACHING | ||
| MATERIALS AND ACTIVITIES. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Activity" includes a presentation, assembly, | ||
| lecture, or other event facilitated by a school district, other | ||
| than a student presentation. | ||
| (2) "Teaching material" includes: | ||
| (A) instructional material, as that term is | ||
| defined by Section 31.002; | ||
| (B) teaching aids; and | ||
| (C) any other material a student is given the | ||
| option to select for the student's instruction. | ||
| (b) Subject to Subsection (g), not later than the fifth day | ||
| of each month, each school district shall make available to the | ||
| public on the district's Internet website: | ||
| (1) a list disaggregated by subject area and grade | ||
| level that states all information, including the title, author, | ||
| organization, or Internet website, as applicable, necessary to | ||
| identify a teaching material or activity that was assigned, | ||
| distributed, or otherwise presented to the district's students | ||
| during the preceding month in: | ||
| (A) a course for which students receive academic | ||
| credit; or | ||
| (B) an educational event that the district | ||
| requires students to attend or in which a majority of students | ||
| participate; | ||
| (2) the district's procedures for documenting, | ||
| reviewing, or approving a material or activity described by | ||
| Subdivision (1); and | ||
| (3) any changes made in the preceding month to the | ||
| procedures described by Subdivision (2). | ||
| (c) For purposes of Subsection (b)(1), a school district is | ||
| not required to list the individual components of teaching | ||
| materials produced as a single volume except that for a volume that | ||
| contains works by multiple authors, the district shall include in | ||
| the list under that subsection: | ||
| (1) a table of contents for the volume; or | ||
| (2) a link to an Internet website that discloses the | ||
| title and author of each work included in the volume. | ||
| (d) Information posted to a school district's Internet | ||
| website under Subsection (b) must be maintained on the website for | ||
| not less than one year. | ||
| (e) A school district may use collaborative online document | ||
| or spreadsheet software to prepare or post on the district's | ||
| Internet website the information required under Subsection (b). | ||
| (f) This section does not require a school district to | ||
| reproduce a material or activity described by Subsection (b)(1). | ||
| (g) This section does not apply to: | ||
| (1) a school district with a student enrollment of | ||
| less than 300 students; or | ||
| (2) a material or activity described by Subsection | ||
| (b)(1) that is selected independently by teachers employed at a | ||
| campus with a student enrollment of less than 50 students for use | ||
| only at that campus. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 12.104(b), Education Code, as amended by | ||
| Chapters 262 (H.B. 1597), 464 (S.B. 11), 467 (H.B. 4170), and 943 | ||
| (H.B. 3), Acts of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019, is | ||
| reenacted and amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b) An open-enrollment charter school is subject to: | ||
| (1) a provision of this title establishing a criminal | ||
| offense; | ||
| (2) the provisions in Chapter 554, Government Code; | ||
| and | ||
| (3) a prohibition, restriction, or requirement, as | ||
| applicable, imposed by this title or a rule adopted under this | ||
| title, relating to: | ||
| (A) the Public Education Information Management | ||
| System (PEIMS) to the extent necessary to monitor compliance with | ||
| this subchapter as determined by the commissioner; | ||
| (B) criminal history records under Subchapter C, | ||
| Chapter 22; | ||
| (C) reading instruments and accelerated reading | ||
| instruction programs under Section 28.006; | ||
| (D) accelerated instruction under Section | ||
| 28.0211; | ||
| (E) high school graduation requirements under | ||
| Section 28.025; | ||
| (F) special education programs under Subchapter | ||
| A, Chapter 29; | ||
| (G) bilingual education under Subchapter B, | ||
| Chapter 29; | ||
| (H) prekindergarten programs under Subchapter E | ||
| or E-1, Chapter 29; | ||
| (I) extracurricular activities under Section | ||
| 33.081; | ||
| (J) discipline management practices or behavior | ||
| management techniques under Section 37.0021; | ||
| (K) health and safety under Chapter 38; | ||
| (L) public school accountability under | ||
| Subchapters B, C, D, F, G, and J, Chapter 39, and Chapter 39A; | ||
| (M) the requirement under Section 21.006 to | ||
| report an educator's misconduct; | ||
| (N) intensive programs of instruction under | ||
| Section 28.0213; | ||
| (O) the right of a school employee to report a | ||
| crime, as provided by Section 37.148; | ||
| (P) bullying prevention policies and procedures | ||
| under Section 37.0832; | ||
| (Q) the right of a school under Section 37.0052 | ||
| to place a student who has engaged in certain bullying behavior in a | ||
| disciplinary alternative education program or to expel the student; | ||
| (R) the right under Section 37.0151 to report to | ||
| local law enforcement certain conduct constituting assault or | ||
| harassment; | ||
| (S) a parent's right to information regarding the | ||
| provision of assistance for learning difficulties to the parent's | ||
| child as provided by Sections 26.004(b)(11) and 26.0081(c) and (d); | ||
| (T) establishment of residency under Section | ||
| 25.001; | ||
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| Sections 37.108, 37.1081, 37.1082, 37.109, 37.113, 37.114, 37.115, | ||
| 37.207, and 37.2071; | ||
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| mathematics proficiency plans under Section 11.185; [ |
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| readiness plans under Section 11.186; and | ||
| (X) the disclosure of certain information | ||
| regarding a teaching material or activity described by Section | ||
| 26.0061. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 4. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails | ||
| over another Act of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, | ||
| relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted | ||
| codes. | ||
| SECTION 5. 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, 2021. | ||
