Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB1655 Compare Versions

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1	1	89R5870 KRM-D
2	2	By: Schatzline H.B. No. 1655
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to a policy prohibiting public school employees from
10	10	assisting a student with social transitioning and to the loss of
11	11	state funding for a violation by a public school.
12	12	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
13	13	SECTION 1. Chapter 11, Education Code, is amended by adding
14	14	Subchapter I to read as follows:
15	15	SUBCHAPTER I. ASSISTANCE WITH SOCIAL TRANSITIONING PROHIBITED
16	16	Sec. 11.401. SCHOOL DISTRICT POLICY: ASSISTANCE WITH SOCIAL
17	17	TRANSITIONING PROHIBITED. (a) In this subchapter, "social
18	18	transitioning" means a person's transition from the gender identity
19	19	associated with the person's biological sex assigned at birth to an
20	20	alternative gender identity through the adoption of a different
21	21	name, different pronouns, or other expressions of gender, including
22	22	clothing and hairstyles, that are:
23	23	(1) typically associated with the biological sex
24	24	opposite of the person's biological sex assigned at birth; and
25	25	(2) intended to communicate the person's alternative
26	26	gender identity.
27	27	(b) The board of trustees of a school district shall adopt a
28	28	policy prohibiting an employee of the district from assisting a
29	29	student enrolled in the district with social transitioning,
30	30	including by providing any information about social transitioning
31	31	or providing guidelines intended to assist a person with social
32	32	transitioning.
33	33	(c) A parent of a student enrolled in the district or a
34	34	district employee may report to the board of trustees of the
35	35	district a suspected violation of the policy adopted under
36	36	Subsection (b). The board shall investigate any suspected
37	37	violation and determine whether the violation occurred. If the
38	38	board determines that a district employee has assisted a student
39	39	enrolled at the district with social transitioning, the board shall
40	40	immediately report the violation to the commissioner.
41	41	(d) If the commissioner finds on an appeal under Section
42	42	7.057 that a school district has violated this section, or if the
43	43	board of trustees of a district notifies the commissioner about a
44	44	violation of the district's policy adopted under Subsection (b),
45	45	notwithstanding any other law, the commissioner shall withhold the
46	46	funding to which the district is entitled under Chapters 46, 48, and
47	47	49 for the school year during which the violation occurred. The
48	48	commissioner may adjust the district's entitlement to funding under
49	49	those chapters for subsequent school years as necessary to recover
50	50	any state funding already paid to the district for the school year
51	51	in which the violation occurred.
52	52	SECTION 2. Section 12.104, Education Code, is amended by
53	53	adding Subsection (b-5) to read as follows:
54	54	(b-5) Section 11.401 applies to an open-enrollment charter
55	55	school as though the governing body of the school were the board of
56	56	trustees of a school district.
57	57	SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026
58	58	school year.
59	59	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
60	60	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
61	61	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
62	62	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
63	63	Act takes effect September 1, 2025.