H.B. No. 2012
AN ACT
relating to the display of the national motto in public school and
institution of higher education classrooms.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1.004, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) A classroom teacher at a public elementary or secondary
school or a teacher or professor at an institution of higher
education as defined by Section 61.003 may not be prohibited from
displaying in a classroom a poster or framed copy of the national
motto that meets the requirements of this section.
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. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2012 was passed by the House on April
27, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 130, Nays 14, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2012 was passed by the Senate on May
16, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor