Bill Text: TX SB1567 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed

Texas Senate Bill 1567

Bill Title: Relating to requiring public schools to maintain physical copies of certain instructional materials.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-06 - Referred to Public Education [SB1567 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1567-Engrossed.html



	By: Campbell, Creighton	S.B. No. 1567


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to requiring public schools to maintain physical copies of
	certain instructional materials.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 31, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 31.107 to read as follows:
	Sec. 31.107. REQUIRED PHYSICAL COPIES OF INSTRUCTIONAL
	MATERIALS. (a) This section applies only to instructional
	materials provided in a physical medium.
	(b) The board of trustees of each school district and the
	governing body of each open-enrollment charter school shall, for
	each instructional material selected by the district or school for
	a subject in the foundation or enrichment curriculum:
	(1) make available at least one physical copy of the
	instructional material in each classroom in which the instructional
	material is used;
	(2) provide to each teacher at a district or school who
	uses the instructional material in teaching a course a physical
	copy of the teacher version of the instructional material, if
	available; and
	(3) maintain in the school library at each district or
	school campus at which the instructional material is used a number
	of physical copies of the instructional material at least equal to
	five percent of the total number of students in the grade level in
	which the instructional material is used.
	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.