By Hochberg H.B. No. 216
76R129 AJA-D
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.