87S20147 KJE-F
By: Hall S.B. No. 31
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to prohibiting the use of state or federal money for the
purpose of certain instruction at public institutions of higher
education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 51.979 to read as follows:
Sec. 51.979. USE OF STATE OR FEDERAL MONEY PROHIBITED FOR
CERTAIN INSTRUCTION. (a) In this section, "institution of higher
education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003.
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, an institution of higher
education may not use appropriated state or federal money to 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 2022 spring
semester.
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.