88R7419 PRL-D
By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 776
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the required period of retention of video surveillance
recordings of special education settings.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 29.022(e), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(e) Except as provided by Subsection (e-1), a school
district or open-enrollment charter school shall retain video
recorded from a video camera placed under this section for at least
six [three] months after the date the video was recorded.
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.