By Park H.B. No. 188 74R1335 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the posting or reading of historic or political 1-3 documents in public school buildings or at public school events. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 21.940 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 21.940. POSTING OR READING OF HISTORIC OR POLITICAL 1-8 DOCUMENTS. (a) The board of trustees of a school district may 1-9 authorize or encourage a teacher or administrator to post in a 1-10 public school building or read at a public school event: 1-11 (1) the national motto; 1-12 (2) the national anthem; 1-13 (3) the pledge of allegiance; 1-14 (4) the preamble to the state constitution; 1-15 (5) the Declaration of Independence; 1-16 (6) the Mayflower Compact; 1-17 (7) a writing, speech, document, or proclamation of a 1-18 founding father or president of the United States; 1-19 (8) a United States Supreme Court decision; 1-20 (9) the United States Constitution; 1-21 (10) an organic document from the precolonial, 1-22 colonial, revolutionary, federalist, or postfederalist era; or 1-23 (11) an act of the United States Congress, including 1-24 the published text of the Congressional Record. 2-1 (b) The board of trustees may not censor the content of a 2-2 document included under Subsection (a) on the basis of a religious 2-3 reference in the document. 2-4 (c) The commissioner of education shall provide for the 2-5 distribution of a copy of this section to each school district. 2-6 The superintendent of each school district shall provide for the 2-7 distribution of a copy of this section to each teacher and 2-8 administrator in the district. 2-9 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-15 passage, and it is so enacted.