By Wohlgemuth H.B. No. 982 75R3176 ESH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the posting of historical and political documents and 1-3 symbols in public school classrooms. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 11.164 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 11.164. POSTING OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND SYMBOLS. 1-8 (a) The board of trustees of an independent school district may 1-9 authorize a teacher or administrator to post in a public school 1-10 building: 1-11 (1) the national motto; 1-12 (2) the national anthem; 1-13 (3) the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United 1-14 States or of this state; 1-15 (4) the preamble to the state constitution; 1-16 (5) the Declaration of Independence; 1-17 (6) the Mayflower Compact; 1-18 (7) the writings, speeches, documents, and 1-19 proclamations of the founding fathers and presidents of the United 1-20 States; 1-21 (8) United States Supreme Court decisions; 1-22 (9) acts of the United States Congress, including the 1-23 published text of the Congressional Record; or 1-24 (10) an official state symbol. 2-1 (b) The board may not censor the content of a document 2-2 included under Subsection (a) on the basis of a religious reference 2-3 in the document. 2-4 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998 2-5 school year. 2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.