Tex. Educ. Code § 35.002 · Chapter 35. REGULATION OF CERTAIN LIBRARY MATERIAL
RATINGS REQUIRED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A library material vendor may not sell library materials to a school district or open-enrollment charter school unless the vendor has issued appropriate ratings regarding sexually explicit material and sexually relevant material previously sold to a district or school.
(b) A library material vendor may not sell library material rated sexually explicit material and shall issue a recall for all copies of library material sold to a district or school that is:
(1) rated sexually explicit material; and
(2) in active use by the district or school.
(c) Not later than April 1, 2024, each library material vendor shall develop and submit to the agency a list of library material rated as sexually explicit material or sexually relevant material sold by the vendor to a school district or open-enrollment charter school before that date and still in active use by the district or school.
(d) Not later than September 1 of each year, each library material vendor shall submit to the agency an updated list of library material rated as sexually explicit material or sexually relevant material sold by the vendor to a school district or open-enrollment charter school during the preceding year and still in active use by the district or school.
(e) The agency shall post each list submitted under Subsection (c) or (d) in a conspicuous place on the agency's Internet website as soon as practicable.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 808 (H.B. 900), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2023.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.35.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
Cited by 4 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Educ. Code § 35.002. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Education Code
- Tex. Educ. Code § 35.0021RATING GUIDELINES.Printed as Section 35.002
- Tex. Educ. Code § 35.003AGENCY REVIEW.Printed as Section 35.002(a)
- Tex. Educ. Code § 35.005PARENTAL CONSENT REQUIRED FOR USE OF CERTAIN LIBRARY MATERIALS.Printed as Section 35.002(a)
- Tex. Educ. Code § 35.006REVIEW AND REPORTING OF CERTAIN LIBRARY MATERIALS.Printed as Section 35.002(a)
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