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Education Code §25.152
In force on Sep 14, 2007 · this text took effect Jun 08, 2007 · same as today's text
LIMITED PUBLIC FORUM; SCHOOL DISTRICT POLICY
(a) To ensure that the school district does not discriminate against a student's publicly stated voluntary expression of a religious viewpoint, if any, and to eliminate any actual or perceived affirmative school sponsorship or attribution to the district of a student's expression of a religious viewpoint, if any, a school district shall adopt a policy, which must include the establishment of a limited public forum for student speakers at all school events at which a student is to publicly speak. The policy regarding the limited public forum must also require the school district to:
(1) provide the forum in a manner that does not discriminate against a student's voluntary expression of a religious viewpoint, if any, on an otherwise permissible subject;
(2) provide a method, based on neutral criteria, for the selection of student speakers at school events and graduation ceremonies;
(3) ensure that a student speaker does not engage in obscene, vulgar, offensively lewd, or indecent speech; and
(4) state, in writing, orally, or both, that the student's speech does not reflect the endorsement, sponsorship, position, or expression of the district.
(b) The school district disclaimer required by Subsection (a)(4) must be provided at all graduation ceremonies. The school district must also continue to provide the disclaimer at any other event in which a student speaks publicly for as long as a need exists to dispel confusion over the district's nonsponsorship of the student's speech.
(c) Student expression on an otherwise permissible subject may not be excluded from the limited public forum because the subject is expressed from a religious viewpoint.
History: Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 261 (H.B. 3678 ), Sec. 2, eff. June 8, 2007.
Source: the Legislature's file server, seen Nov 08, 2026.
Every version on file
- Effective Jun 08, 2007 · seen Nov 2026–Nov 2026
Attorney General opinions that cite it
- GA-0609 (Sep 14, 2007): Whether the Schoolchildren's Religious Liberties Act, subchapter E, chapter 25 of the Education Code, is circumscribed in the Houston Independent School District by a 1970 permanent injunction issued by a federal district court
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