By Ehrhardt H.B. No. 1296 77R2455 KKA-D 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.