By: Menéndez S.B. No. 3024
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the ability for students to recite the pledge of
allegiance.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. SECTION 25.082, Education Code, is amended as
follows:
(b) The board of trustees of each school district and the
governing board of each open-enrollment charter school shall
require students, once during each school day at each campus, to
recite or silently observe the recitation of:
(1) the pledge of allegiance to the United States flag
in accordance with 4 U.S.C. Section 4; and
(2) the pledge of allegiance to the state flag in
accordance with Subchapter C, Chapter 3100, Government Code.
(b-1) The board of trustees of each school district and the
governing board of each open-enrollment charter school shall
require that the United States and Texas flags be prominently
displayed in accordance with 4 U.S.C. Sections 5-10 and Chapter
3100, Government Code, in each campus classroom to which a student
is assigned at the time the pledges of allegiance to those flags are
recited. A district or school is not required to spend federal,
state, or local district or school funds to acquire flags required
under this subsection. A district or school may raise money or
accept gifts, grants, and donations to acquire flags required under
this subsection.
(c) On written request from a student's parent or guardian,
a school district or open-enrollment charter school shall excuse
the student from reciting a pledge of allegiance under Subsection
(b) and these students must wait outside of the room as these
activities are being conducted.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.