| TO: | Honorable Kent Grusendorf, Chair, House Committee on Public Education |
| FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Deputy Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | HB1476 by Edwards (Relating to regulation of sexually suggestive performances at certain public school events.), As Introduced |
The bill prohibits certain school performance groups from performing in a sexually suggestive manner at school sponsored athletic, extracurricular, or competition events. It specifies that the school performance group be banned from performing for the remainder of the school year, if found in violation of the prohibition. It allows the commissioner to reduce funding to a school district that knowingly permitted violations of the prohibition or failed to enforce the ban on subsequent performances.
While there could potentially be many complaints filed concerning school performance groups, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) believes that most complaints would be handled through standard correspondence procedures, as opposed to on-site investigations. There is a potential for hearings to arise as a result of a district’s enforcement or lack of enforcement, or as a result of any financial penalty assessed by the commissioner, but TEA anticipates that the volume of additional hearings would not to be significant.
| Source Agencies: | 701 Central Education Agency
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, CT, UP, KC
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