By Ehrhardt H.B. No. 1258 75R5966 KKA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a prohibition of discrimination by educational 1-3 institutions. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 1, Education Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Section 1.0021 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 1.0021. DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED. An educational 1-8 institution or employee of an educational institution may not 1-9 discriminate against a student enrolled in the institution in the 1-10 provision of any education program or activity on account of 1-11 ethnicity, color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or national 1-12 origin. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.