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78R3096 KKA-D

By:  Coleman                                                      H.B. No. 862



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a prohibition of discrimination by public educational 
institutions.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Chapter 1, Education Code, is amended by adding 
Section 1.0021 to read as follows:
	Sec. 1.0021.  DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED. (a)  In this 
section, "sexual preference" means only a preference for 
heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality.
	(b)  A public educational institution or employee of a public 
educational institution may not discriminate against a student 
enrolled in the institution on account of the ethnicity, color, 
gender, gender identity, sexual preference, disability, religion, 
or national origin of the student or the student's parent.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.