By: Zwiener H.B. No. 5091
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a procedure governing the removal of a book or other
  media maintained by a public school teacher in a classroom.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 33, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 33.915 to read as follows:
         Sec. 33.915.  CLASSROOM BOOK REMOVAL PROCEDURE. (a) A school
  district shall not remove a book or other media maintained by a
  teacher in a classroom without following the same procedure
  governing the removal of a library material maintained in the
  catalog of a public school library.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
  school year.
         SECTION 3.  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, 2023.