By: Hughes  S.B. No. 1601
         (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2023; March 16, 2023, read
  first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
  March 30, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
  Nays 2; March 30, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to prohibiting municipal libraries that host certain
  events from receiving state funding.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 315, Local Government Code, is amended
  by adding Section 315.0051 to read as follows:
         Sec. 315.0051.  PROHIBITED EVENTS AT MUNICIPAL LIBRARIES. A
  municipal library may not receive state funds if the library hosts
  an event at which a man presenting as a woman or a woman presenting
  as a man reads a book or a story to a minor for entertainment and the
  person being dressed as the opposite gender is a primary component
  of the entertainment.  State funds for the municipal library shall
  be denied for the fiscal year following the year in which the
  library hosts an event described by this section.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to an event that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
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