Keresa Johnson Richardson, Texas State Representative of the 61st district (R) | https://www.facebook.com/keresa.richardson.16
Keresa Johnson Richardson, Texas State Representative of the 61st district (R) | https://www.facebook.com/keresa.richardson.16
More specifically, the official text was summarized by the state legislature as ’’Relating to the standards for a school district's library collection development policies; providing a civil penalty’’.
The following is our breakdown, based on the actual bill text, and may include interpretation to clarify its provisions.
This bill amends the Education Code to establish updated standards for school districts' library collection development policies, with a focus on prohibiting certain types of content. It defines harmful, indecent, profane, and sexually explicit materials and restricts their inclusion in school libraries. The bill recognizes parents as primary decision makers for students' library access and mandates transparency and communication between schools and parents regarding collection development. It allows residents to challenge the inclusion of certain materials and imposes a civil penalty of up to $10,000 on districts in violation. The Texas State Library and Archives Commission is tasked with adopting these standards by the 2025-26 school year, with the bill taking effect immediately upon a two-thirds legislative vote or by Sept. 1, 2025.
Keresa Richardson, member of the House Committee on S/C on International Relations, proposed another nine bills during the 89(R) legislative session.
Richardson graduated from Texas A & M University in 1979.
Keresa Richardson is currently serving in the Texas State House, representing the state's 61st House district. She replaced previous state representative Frederick Frazier in 2025.
Bills in Texas go through a multi-step legislative process, including committee review, debates, and votes in both chambers before reaching a final decision. Each session, there are typically thousands of bills introduced, but only a portion successfully navigate the process to become law.
You can read more about the bills and other measures here.
| Bill Number | Date Introduced | Short Description |
|---|---|---|
| HB 4200 | 03/31/2025 | Relating to requiring certain disclosures in relation to the purchase of electronic media by consumers; providing a civil penalty |
| HB 3978 | 03/27/2025 | Relating to municipal authority to annex certain areas by petition |
| HB 3975 | 03/27/2025 | Relating to authorizing a credit union to act as a school district depository |
| HB 3974 | 03/27/2025 | Relating to a toll-free telephone hotline established by the Texas Department of Transportation for reporting dangerous road conditions |
| HB 3973 | 03/27/2025 | Relating to prohibiting a fee for a parent-taught driver education provider license |
| HB 3972 | 03/27/2025 | Relating to including fetal development instruction as part of the required health curriculum for public school students in certain grade levels |
| HB 3760 | 03/26/2025 | Relating to an exemption from sales and use taxes for certain materials used in trapping feral hogs |
| HB 3585 | 03/25/2025 | Relating to the employment policies of and criminal history record information obtained by mental hospitals and mental health facilities and the prohibited employment of certain applicants based on criminal history record information |
| HB 3058 | 03/20/2025 | Relating to the admission of persons holding certain nonimmigrant visas to public institutions of higher education |
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