By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 1434
(In the Senate - Filed February 19, 2025; March 6, 2025,
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
March 24, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10,
Nays 0; March 24, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a prohibition on the use of public money by a school
district to transport district students or employees to or from a
polling place.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 11.1691 to read as follows:
Sec. 11.1691. USE OF PUBLIC MONEY FOR TRANSPORTATION TO OR
FROM POLLING PLACE PROHIBITED. (a) Except as provided by
Subsection (b), the board of trustees of a school district may not
use public money to transport district students or employees to or
from a building or location selected as a polling place under the
Election Code on the day of an election or while early voting is in
progress.
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to the transportation of
students to or from the students' campus of regular attendance or a
school-sponsored activity.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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