BILL ANALYSIS Senate Research Center C.S.S.B. 747 89R10665 TSS-D By: King Education K-16 4/8/2025 Committee Report (Substituted) AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT Committee Substitute The committee substitute adds "a student with the student's intimate parts exposed" to Section 37.218(b)(6). This is a clarifying change to align language in Section 4 with language in Sections 2 and 3. C.S.S.B. 747 amends current law relating to public school policies and programs regarding the production or distribution of certain intimate visual material by public school students. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 37.0052(b), Education Code, as follows: (b) Authorizes a student to be removed from class and placed in a disciplinary alternative education program as provided by Section 37.008 (Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs) or expelled if the student engages in or incites certain actions, including releasing or threatening to release intimate visual material of a minor or a student who is 18 years of age or older without the student's consent, including intimate visual material created using artificial intelligence technology. SECTION 2. Amends Section 37.0832(a), Education Code, by amending Subdivision (2) and adding Subdivision (3) to redefine "cyberbullying" and to define "intimate parts" and "sexual conduct" and to make nonsubstantive changes. SECTION 3. Amends Section 37.0832(c-1), Education Code, as follows: (c-1) Requires the Texas Education Agency to adopt minimum standards for a school district's policy under Subsection (c) (relating to the adoption of a policy concerning bullying). Requires that the standards include certain initiatives, including requiring districts to include in the policy provisions specifically addressing incidents of bullying that involve the production or distribution of a video or image that depicts or appears to depict another student with the other student's intimate parts exposed or engaged in sexual conduct, including a video or image created through the use of artificial intelligence technology. Makes nonsubstantive changes. SECTION 4. Amends Section 37.218(b), Education Code, as follows: (b) Requires the Texas School Safety Center, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, to develop programs for use by school districts that address certain topics related to bullying, including the specific risks of producing or distributing visual material created using artificial intelligence technology that appears to depict a student with the student's intimate parts exposed or engaged in sexual conduct. SECTION 5. Provides that this Act applies beginning with the 20252026 school year. SECTION 6. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2025.
BILL ANALYSIS
Senate Research Center C.S.S.B. 747
89R10665 TSS-D By: King
Education K-16
4/8/2025
Committee Report (Substituted)
Senate Research Center
C.S.S.B. 747
89R10665 TSS-D
By: King
Education K-16
4/8/2025
Committee Report (Substituted)
AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT
Committee Substitute
The committee substitute adds "a student with the student's intimate parts exposed" to Section 37.218(b)(6). This is a clarifying change to align language in Section 4 with language in Sections 2 and 3.
C.S.S.B. 747 amends current law relating to public school policies and programs regarding the production or distribution of certain intimate visual material by public school students.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency.
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS
SECTION 1. Amends Section 37.0052(b), Education Code, as follows:
(b) Authorizes a student to be removed from class and placed in a disciplinary alternative education program as provided by Section 37.008 (Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs) or expelled if the student engages in or incites certain actions, including releasing or threatening to release intimate visual material of a minor or a student who is 18 years of age or older without the student's consent, including intimate visual material created using artificial intelligence technology.
SECTION 2. Amends Section 37.0832(a), Education Code, by amending Subdivision (2) and adding Subdivision (3) to redefine "cyberbullying" and to define "intimate parts" and "sexual conduct" and to make nonsubstantive changes.
SECTION 3. Amends Section 37.0832(c-1), Education Code, as follows:
(c-1) Requires the Texas Education Agency to adopt minimum standards for a school district's policy under Subsection (c) (relating to the adoption of a policy concerning bullying). Requires that the standards include certain initiatives, including requiring districts to include in the policy provisions specifically addressing incidents of bullying that involve the production or distribution of a video or image that depicts or appears to depict another student with the other student's intimate parts exposed or engaged in sexual conduct, including a video or image created through the use of artificial intelligence technology. Makes nonsubstantive changes.
SECTION 4. Amends Section 37.218(b), Education Code, as follows:
(b) Requires the Texas School Safety Center, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, to develop programs for use by school districts that address certain topics related to bullying, including the specific risks of producing or distributing visual material created using artificial intelligence technology that appears to depict a student with the student's intimate parts exposed or engaged in sexual conduct.
SECTION 5. Provides that this Act applies beginning with the 20252026 school year.
SECTION 6. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2025.