By: Hughes, et al. S.B. No. 1601
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to prohibiting municipal libraries that host certain
events from receiving state or other public funding.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 315, Local Government Code, is amended
by adding Section 315.0051 to read as follows:
Sec. 315.0051. PROHIBITED EVENTS AT MUNICIPAL LIBRARIES. A
municipal library may not receive state or other public funds if the
library hosts an event at which a man presenting as a woman or a
woman presenting as a man reads a book or a story to a minor for
entertainment and the person being dressed as the opposite gender
is a primary component of the entertainment. The state and a
political subdivision may not provide funds to the municipal
library for the fiscal year following the year in which the library
hosts an event described by this section.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an event that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.