Bill Text: TX SB654 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring the disclosure of public school curricula and teaching materials.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-17 - Referred to Education [SB654 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB654-Introduced.html
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| By: Hall | S.B. No. 654 | |
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| relating to requiring the disclosure of public school curricula and | ||
| teaching materials. | ||
| 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 CURRICULA AND | ||
| TEACHING MATERIALS. (a) In this section, "teaching material" | ||
| includes: | ||
| (1) instructional material, as that term is defined by | ||
| Section 31.002; | ||
| (2) supplemental material; | ||
| (3) teaching aids; and | ||
| (4) any other material a student is given the option to | ||
| select for the student's instruction. | ||
| (b) Subject to Subsection (d), not later than the seventh | ||
| day before the date curricula or teaching materials will be | ||
| implemented, assigned, distributed, or otherwise presented to | ||
| students, each school district and open-enrollment charter school | ||
| shall make those items available to the public on the district's or | ||
| school's Internet website, disaggregated by subject area and grade | ||
| level. | ||
| (c) Information posted to a school district's or | ||
| open-enrollment charter school's Internet website under Subsection | ||
| (b) must be maintained on the website for not less than 10 years. | ||
| (d) A school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
| must make curricula and teaching materials described by Subsection | ||
| (b) available in a manner that complies with copyright law and | ||
| otherwise prevents the items from being copied. Items that cannot | ||
| be made available on the district's or school's Internet website | ||
| must be made available for review by parents in accordance with | ||
| Section 26.006. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2024-2025 | ||
| 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. | ||
