By Bivins S.B. No. 521
75R2413 ESH-D
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.