By: Stucky H.B. No. 1938
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the protection of students from sexual grooming.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Add a new Subchapter H, Chapter 38, Education
Code, to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER H. SEXUAL GROOMING PROTECTION ACT
Sec. 38.401. SEXUAL GROOMING PROTECTION. (a)
Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, as provided by
this subchapter a parent who determines that their child is
subjected to sexual grooming at a public school is entitled to the
right to protect their child from such sexual grooming by selecting
another school, public or private, for their child in which event
Chapter 48 funding for the education of that child shall flow with
the child to the new school selected by the parents.
Sec. 38.402. DEFINITION. Sexual Grooming is defined as any
effort to desensitize children to sexual experiences, or to
normalize sexual relationships with adults or children of the same
or opposite sex.
Sec. 38.403. ACCREDITED PRIVATE SCHOOL PARTICIPATION (a)
The commissioner shall adopt rules to implement the program. Rules
shall be designed to prohibit fraud and abuse. The rules may not in
any form effect or attempt to control the programs, curricula, or
other operations of private schools who participate in the program
other than rules for accredited private schools which were in
effect January 1, 2023.
(b) No federal funds or Available School Funds shall be used
to fund programs under this subsection.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.