By: Bivins S.B. No. 521
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to parental consent for certain activities in public
1-2 schools.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 26.009, Education Code,
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) An employee of a school district is not required to
1-7 obtain the consent of a child's parent before the employee may make
1-8 a videotape of a child or authorize the recording of a child's
1-9 voice if the videotape or voice recording is to be used only for:
1-10 (1) purposes of safety, including the maintenance of
1-11 order and discipline in common areas of the school or on school
1-12 buses;
1-13 (2) a purpose related to a cocurricular or
1-14 extracurricular activity; [or]
1-15 (3) a purpose related to regular classroom
1-16 instruction;
1-17 (4) a purpose related to the evaluation of an
1-18 educator; or
1-19 (5) media coverage of the school.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998
1-21 school year.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.