By Bivins                                        S.B. No. 521

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                                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(b), Education Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           (b)  An employee of a school district is not required to

 1-8     obtain the consent of a child's parent before the employee may make

 1-9     a videotape of a child or authorize the recording of a child's

1-10     voice if the videotape or voice recording is to be used only for:

1-11                 (1)  purposes of safety, including the maintenance of

1-12     order and discipline in common areas of the school or on school

1-13     buses;

1-14                 (2)  a purpose related to a cocurricular or

1-15     extracurricular activity; [or]

1-16                 (3)  a purpose related to regular classroom

1-17     instruction;

1-18                 (4)  a purpose related to the evaluation of an

1-19     educator;

1-20                 (5)  media coverage of the school; or

1-21                 (6)  another purpose approved by the board of trustees.

1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998

1-23     school year.

1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-5     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-6     passage, and it is so enacted.