Texas Education Code

§ 33.025 — LOCAL SCHOOL LIBRARY ADVISORY COUNCIL

ED § 33.025Title 2. PUBLIC EDUCATION · Part F. CURRICULUM, PROGRAMS, AND SERVICES · Ch. 33. SERVICE PROGRAMS AND EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES · Art. B. LIBRARIES

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(a)Subject to Subsection (b), the board of trustees of each school district may establish a local school library advisory council to assist the district in ensuring that local community values are reflected in each school library catalog in the district. A school district that does not establish a local school library advisory council must ensure that the district's procedures for adding or removing library materials to or from a school library catalog comply with:

(1)the library standards approved under Section 33.021; and

(2)the meeting requirements under Subsections (g) and (h).

(b)The board of trustees of a school district shall establish a local school library advisory council if the parents of at least 10 percent of the students enrolled in the district or 50 or more parents of students enrolled in the district, whichever is fewer, present to the board a petition to establish a local school library advisory council. A council established under this subsection may not be abolished until the third anniversary of the date on which the council was established.

(c)Except as provided by Section 33.026(f), a school district that establishes a local school library advisory council must consider the recommendations of the local school library advisory council before:

(1)adding library materials to a school library catalog;

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1126 (S.B. 13), Sec. 4, eff. September 1, 2025.