1-1 By: Bivins S.B. No. 521
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 10, 1997; February 13, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
1-4 April 3, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10,
1-5 Nays 0; April 3, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to parental consent for certain activities in public
1-9 schools.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 26.009, Education Code,
1-12 is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) An employee of a school district is not required to
1-14 obtain the consent of a child's parent before the employee may make
1-15 a videotape of a child or authorize the recording of a child's
1-16 voice if the videotape or voice recording is to be used only for:
1-17 (1) purposes of safety, including the maintenance of
1-18 order and discipline in common areas of the school or on school
1-19 buses;
1-20 (2) a purpose related to a cocurricular or
1-21 extracurricular activity; [or]
1-22 (3) a purpose related to regular classroom
1-23 instruction;
1-24 (4) a purpose related to the evaluation of an
1-25 educator;
1-26 (5) media coverage of the school; or
1-27 (6) another purpose approved by the board of trustees.
1-28 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998
1-29 school year.
1-30 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-35 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-36 passage, and it is so enacted.
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