SB 412 is currently awaiting the Texas Governor Greg Abbott's signature.
See also:
- "Bill Targeting Explicit Library Materials in Schools Clears House and Senate; It's the First Texas GOP Priority Bill to Make Its Way To the Governor," by Brandon Waltens, Texas Scorecard, 2 May 2025:
The bill removes broad exemptions in Texas law that currently shield school officials, librarians, and others from prosecution for distributing material deemed harmful to minors, so long as it is for an "educational purpose."
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Christin Bentley, who chairs the party’s subcommittee on protecting Texas children, celebrated the win.“There is NEVER a reason to give a child p[*]rn and there is NEVER a reason to have a child perform s[*]xually for an adult. For 52 years, Texas law has said otherwise, allowing ridiculous legal justifications for both of those things. Today, that changed,” said Bentley.
Texas is taking away the legal exemption that allows school librarians to s[*]xualize school children in schools using public taxpayer money to carry out American Library Association goals it's been working on to indoctrinate school children for about 60 years.
Other states need to follow suit. It is notable that American Library Association tries to insert such exemptions into state laws with laws like the Freedom to Read Act or the Right to Read Act—because they know that makes it easier for school librarians to indoctrinate and s[*]xualize school children using taxpayer funding.
Any school librarian or library organization or local parents group created by ALA who opposes this comprises you-know-whats.
Oh look, they oppose Texas SB 13 as well. They say it will "destroy public school libraries in Texas." No, it will destroy ALA's ability to get school librarians to indoctrinate Texas children in their schools. So submit public comment in favor of SB 13 here: https://comments.house.texas.gov/home?c=c400. SB 13 is by Senator Paxton. The bill lays out specific language that schools cannot have s[*]xually explicit, vulgar or other harmful materials in their libraries.
Here is a transcript of exactly what was said by Rep. Mitch Little about SB 412 in his video shown below. Enjoy. He even indirectly exposes the Toni Morrison lie, you know, where American Library Association says if you oppose her prize-winning books in schools, the ones with bestiality, etc., it's because you're racist and hate black skin.
T R A N S C R I P T
Mr. Speaker:
Mr. Little in support of the bill.
Mr. Little:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, members. I'm going to try to bring the temperature down a little bit and talk about just the legal aspects of this bill, which I think are very important for you to consider. Um. With great uh respect and consideration for my esteemed colleague, Representative Zwiener, this is not a complex bill. It is a very simple bill. It's two pages long. One of the sections dealing with the revocation of affirmative defenses deals with sexual performance by a child. As a lawyer, it is very difficult for me to understand how a legislature in the past implemented or wrote into law affirmative defenses to sexual performance by a child that included bona fide educational, psychiatric, or other governmental purposes besides judicial and law enforcement. It simply makes no sense. It never should have been there.
I understand that a lot of our discussion so far has revolved around harmful content and what constitutes harmful content under Texas law. Respectfully, that is not the purpose of the bill. And one thing I want you to consider is, should there ever be an educational, a scientific, or psychiatric or psychological reason to display harmful content for a child. And I would contend that the answer to that is, no, there should never be a reason for that. It is called harmful content for a reason. Because it is harmful.
Representative Zwiener expressed concerns that this is going to put teachers or librarians in fear. And ladies and gentlemen, I would submit to you humbly, teachers and librarians that intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly expose children to harmful content should be in fear in the state of Texas.
I know there is extreme concern also from our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that Nobel Prize winning literature should be offered to children. And I think, of course, in most situations, it should. However, there are situations where unbelievably accomplished authors, such as Toni Morrison, will have written pieces of literature, and that's what they are, pieces of literature, that are not appropriate for a school-aged child. And I think we, as reasonable people, should agree that certain works of literature are too mature for children to be subjected to in schools. As accomplished as those authors are and as important as those works of literature are, they shouldn't be exposed to children in schools.
Representative Zwiener, in our chamber here, expressed concern that we need to, quote, I had to write these words down because I was shocked that they came out of her mouth, "show children what sexual assault looks like." That is not the purpose of the school. It is not the purpose of a school in the state of Texas; it should not be the purpose of a school anywhere in the United States of America.
We have written many bills this legislative session about sexual assault. I have co-authored and joint authored many of them by many of you in here. There are important changes that have been made to the law by Representative Johnson, Representative Howard, many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. And there is an appropriate time and place to make changes to the law about sexual assault. Educating people through pictures of sexual assault in a school is a bridge too far, and I hope my colleagues on both sides of the aisle will agree. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Speaker 3:
Well done.
O R I G I N A L S P E E C H
My floor speech in favor of @mayes_middleton and @JaredLPatterson’s Senate Bill 412, an @TexasGOP priority bill protecting Texas children. Thank you @Bentley4Texas for your tireless advocacy! pic.twitter.com/VCU9MawDCZ
— Rep. Mitch Little (@realmitchlittle) May 2, 2025
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