Bill Text: TX SB802 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to educational and informational materials provided through the Thriving Texas Families Program.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-02-07 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB802 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB802-Introduced.html
  89R2775 SRA-D
 
  By: Menéndez S.B. No. 802
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to educational and informational materials provided
  through the Thriving Texas Families Program.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 54.003, Health and Safety Code, as added
  by Chapter 1033 (S.B. 24), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular
  Session, 2023, is amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as
  follows:
         (b-1)  Educational and informational materials provided
  through the program, including lesson curricula and promotional
  items:
               (1)  may include only medically accurate and
  scientifically supported information;
               (2)  must be provided in a non-coercive, factual
  manner; and
               (3)  may not explicitly endorse any religious ideology,
  teaching, or practice.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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