Tex. Educ. Code § 1.009 · Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
INFRINGEMENT OF PARENTAL RIGHTS PROHIBITED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The fundamental rights granted to parents by their Creator and upheld by the United States Constitution, the Texas Constitution, and the laws of this state, including the right to direct the moral and religious training of the parent's child, make decisions concerning the child's education, and consent to medical, psychiatric, and psychological treatment of the parent's child under Section 151.001, Family Code, may not be infringed on by any public elementary or secondary school or state governmental entity, including the state or a political subdivision of the state, unless the infringement is:
(1) necessary to further a compelling state interest, such as providing life-saving care to a child; and
(2) narrowly tailored using the least restrictive means to achieve that compelling state interest.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1125 (S.B. 12), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.1.htm
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