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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to prohibiting certain instruction in public schools. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 28, Education Code, is |
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amended by adding Section 28.0025 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 28.0025. CERTAIN INSTRUCTION PROHIBITED. A school |
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district or open-enrollment charter school may not offer a course, |
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component of a course, unit of study, or other instruction that |
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directs or otherwise compels a student to personally affirm, adopt, |
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or adhere to the idea that: |
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(1) any race, sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or |
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national origin is inherently superior or inferior to another race, |
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sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin; |
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(2) an individual should be discriminated against or |
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receive adverse treatment solely or partly because of the |
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individual's race, sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or national |
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origin; or |
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(3) an individual, by virtue of the individual's race, |
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sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin, is inherently |
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responsible for actions committed in the past by other members of |
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the same race, sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin. |
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SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 |
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school year. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the |
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legislative session. |