Honorable Brandon Creighton, Chair, Senate Committee on Education
FROM:
Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
SB13 by Paxton (relating to a school district's library materials and catalog, the creation of local school library advisory councils, and parental rights regarding public school library catalogs and access by the parent's child to library materials.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
Local Government Impact
Districts would likely incur costs to send written notification to the parent of students regarding the option to receive notice each time the child obtains library material. Additionally, districts would have costs associated with implementing the required notification system. There could be costs to districts to implement the requirement to establish a local school library advisory council, including hosting meetings, preparing materials for the council, providing audio or video recordings of meetings, and posting the recordings to the district website.