By Ehrhardt, Naishtat, et al.                         H.B. No. 1296
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to a prohibition of discrimination by public educational
 1-3     institutions.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 1, Education Code, is amended by adding
 1-6     Section 1.0021 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 1.0021.  DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED.  A public
 1-8     educational institution or employee of a public educational
 1-9     institution may not discriminate against a student enrolled in the
1-10     institution on account of the ethnicity, color, gender, gender
1-11     identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion, or national
1-12     origin of the student or the student's parent.
1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-14     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-15     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-16     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-17     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.