Texas 2021 - 87th 2nd C.S.

Texas Senate Bill SB30 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 08/06/2021

                            By: Hall S.B. No. 30


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to prohibiting certain instruction in public schools.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 28, Education Code, is
 amended by adding Section 28.0025 to read as follows:
 Sec. 28.0025.  CERTAIN INSTRUCTION PROHIBITED. A school
 district or open-enrollment charter school may not offer a course,
 component of a course, unit of study, or other instruction that
 directs or otherwise compels a student to personally affirm, adopt,
 or adhere to the idea that:
 (1)  any race, sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or
 national origin is inherently superior or inferior to another race,
 sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin;
 (2)  an individual should be discriminated against or
 receive adverse treatment solely or partly because of the
 individual's race, sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or national
 origin; or
 (3)  an individual, by virtue of the individual's race,
 sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin, is inherently
 responsible for actions committed in the past by other members of
 the same race, sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin.
 SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022
 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the
 legislative session.