By Hochberg                                            H.B. No. 216
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to videotaping of a child by a school district employee.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 26.009(b), Education Code, is amended to
 1-5     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:
1-10                 (1)  the videotape or voice recording is to be used
1-11     only for:
1-12                       (A) [(1)]  purposes of safety, including the
1-13     maintenance of order and discipline in common areas of the school
1-14     or on school buses;
1-15                       (B) [(2)]  a purpose related to a cocurricular or
1-16     extracurricular activity;
1-17                       (C) [(3)]  a purpose related to regular classroom
1-18     instruction; or
1-19                       (D) [(4)]  media coverage of the school; or
1-20                 (2)  the videotape or voice recording is made to
1-21     document:
1-22                       (A)  the open portion of a meeting held by the
1-23     school district in accordance with Chapter 551, Government Code; or
1-24                       (B)  a closed meeting held in accordance with
 2-1     Section 551.082(a)(1), Government Code.
 2-2           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
 2-3     school year.
 2-4           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-9     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10     passage, and it is so enacted.