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By:AAHughes S.B.ANo.

A1601

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

1 AN ACT

2 relating to prohibiting municipal libraries that host certain

3 events from receiving state funding.

4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

5 SECTIONA1.AAChapter 315, Local Government Code, is amended

6 by adding Section 315.0051 to read as follows:

7 Sec.A315.0051.AAPROHIBITED EVENTS AT MUNICIPAL LIBRARIES. A

8 municipal library may not receive state funds if the library hosts

9 an event at which a man presenting as a woman or a woman presenting

10 as a man reads a book or a story to a minor for entertainment and the

11 person being dressed as the opposite gender is a primary component

12 of the entertainment. State funds for the municipal library shall

13 be denied for the fiscal year following the year in which the

14 library hosts an event described by this section.

15 SECTIONA2.AAThe change in law made by this Act applies only

16 to an event that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act.

17 SECTIONA3.AAThis Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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