But a new Texas law might require her to.
The law’s primary author, Republican Texas State Rep. Jared Patterson, said its aim is simple: Get sexually explicit content out of schools.
Republican Texas State Rep. Jared Patterson debates HB 900, which would ban sexually explicit materials from library books in schools.
Mikala Compton/Austin American-Statesman/APBut the burden of rating these books falls on book vendors.
The law also applies retroactively to books sold to schools in the past, meaning that vendors must issue recalls for “sexually explicit” books still in circulation.
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