SB 13 establishes and amends provisions in the Texas Education Code regarding the acquisition of school library materials, processes for challenging materials, school library standards, and parental access to information related to school libraries.
SB 1621:
- Makes it a first-degree felony punishable by life in prison to display, or cause to be displayed, in a school library, visual material that contains a visual depiction of a child engaging in sexual conduct if the person knows or should have known that the depiction is of a child.
- Makes it a second degree felony punishable by at least 10 years in prison to display, or cause to be displayed, in a school library, visual material that contains a visual depiction of a computer-generated child engaging in sexual conduct if the person knows or should have known that the depiction appeared to be of a child or believes that the depiction is of an actual child.
