By Madden                                             H.B. No. 3519
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to parental notification and consent before children are
 1-3     put into experimental programs.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 26.009(a), Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Section 26.009.  CONSENT REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN ACTIVITIES.
 1-8     (a)  An employee of a school district must obtain the written
 1-9     consent of a child's parent before the employee may:
1-10                 (1)  conduct a psychological examination, test, or
1-11     treatment, unless the examination, test, or treatment is required
1-12     under Section 38.004 or state or federal law regarding requirements
1-13     for special education; [or]
1-14                 (2)  require the child to take part in a pilot or
1-15     experimental program or curriculum; or
1-16                 (3)  make or authorize the making of a videotape of a
1-17     child or record or authorize the recording of a child's voice.
1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.