TITLE: Relating to a procedure governing the removal of a book or other media maintained by a public school teacher in a classroom.

SUMMARY: Relating to a procedure governing the removal of a book or other media maintained by a public school teacher in a classroom.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to a procedure governing the removal of a book or other media maintained by a public school teacher in a classroom. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 33, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 33.915 to read as follows: Sec. 33.915. CLASSROOM BOOK REMOVAL PROCEDURE. (a) A school district shall not remove a book or other media maintained by a teacher in a classroom without following the same procedure governing the removal of a library material maintained in the catalog of a public school library. SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 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.