84R3045 SRS-F
By: Fallon H.B. No. 4102
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring certain public school students to attend a
designated film screening.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 28, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 28.0024 to read as follows:
Sec. 28.0024. FILM SCREENING REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN STUDENTS.
(a) Each school district shall require 8th grade and 11th grade
students to attend a screening of the film America: Imagine the
World Without Her.
(b) On written request from a student's parent or person
standing in parental relation to the student, the school district
shall excuse the student from attending the screening.
(c) The commissioner shall adopt rules and procedures as
necessary to administer this section, including procedures to
ensure that the film designated under this section is distributed
to school districts and exhibited to students in a manner that does
not violate copyright laws.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016
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, 2015.