By Bivins                                              S.B. No. 521

         Substitute the following for S.B. No. 521:

         By Uher                                            C.S.S.B. No. 521

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to parental consent for certain activities in public

 1-3     schools.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 26.009, Education Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 26.009.  Consent Required for Certain Activities.

 1-8     (a)  An employee of a school district must obtain the written

 1-9     consent of a child's parent before the employee may:

1-10                 (1)  conduct a psychological examination, test, or

1-11     treatment, unless the examination, test, or treatment is required

1-12     under Section 38.004 or state or federal law regarding requirements

1-13     for special education; or

1-14                 (2)  make or authorize the making of a videotape of a

1-15     child or record or authorize the recording of a child's voice.

1-16           (b)  An employee of a school district is not required to

1-17     obtain the consent of a child's parent before the employee may make

1-18     a videotape of a child or authorize the recording of a child's

1-19     voice if the videotape or voice recording is to be used only for:

1-20                 (1)  purposes of safety, including the maintenance of

1-21     order and discipline in common areas of the school or on school

1-22     buses;

1-23                 (2)  a purpose related to a cocurricular or

1-24     extracurricular activity; [or]

 2-1                 (3)  a purpose related to regular classroom

 2-2     instruction; or

 2-3                 (4)  media coverage of the school.

 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.