This bill enacts the "Protecting Religious Liberty and Expression in Public Schools Act," which requires public schools to use the Bible within their instruction and to provide for a period of prayer and reading of religious texts. This bill also creates a legal remedy for those adversely affected by the noncompliance of this bill, or by the enforcement of the separation of church and state doctrine or the Establishment Clause. PUBLIC SCHOOL REQUIREMENTS This bill requires public schools to teach all students, except those with a written request to be excluded, the Bible as literature, age-appropriate history of Isreal, the stories and the moral and ethical teachings of the Old and New Testaments, the life of Jesus, the history of the early Christian church, and the Bible's influence on western civilization. However, this bill does not permit a public school to teach the Bible as religious dogma, coerce a student to believe or accept the Bible as divinely inspired, or teach the Bible in any manner that violates the Establishment Clause as interpreted by the supreme court of the United States. This bill also requires schools to provide its students and employees with an opportunity to participate in a designated period of prayer and reading of the Bible or religious texts on each school day. Schools must adopt and implement policies for the purpose of implementing such designated period, which must address all of the following:  Prohibiting a student or employee from participating in the period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious texts unless there is a signed consent form. Prohibiting the provision of a prayer or reading of the Bible or other religious text over a public address system. Specifying that a period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious texts does not substitute for instructional time. Ensuring a period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious texts is not provided in a way that would constitute an injury in fact to a person who has not consented or has revoked consent and has not submitted a new form of consent. This bill authorizes public schools to require that the period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious texts to be provided before regular school hours and by any other method recommended by the attorney general, or legal counsel for the school district. However, a student or employee may also participate in a period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious texts during a time in the school day that is not so designated by the school. LEGAL REMEDIES This bill creates a legal remedy for any student, and parent or guardian of a student, entitling them to declaratory and injunctive relief, court costs, and reasonable attorney fees, if a public school fails to comply with the requirements mentioned above. This bill authorizes a state officer or employee, including those employed by the public school system, to enforce the separation of church and state doctrine or the Establishment Clause only as necessary to comply with a judgment or decree entered by a court against that specific officer or employee, the superior of the officer or employee, or the entity in which the state officer or employee is employed, or, a directly-on-point ruling from the supreme court of the United States, when there are no reasonable grounds for distinguishing the ruling factually or legally. If an individual is adversely affected by this enforcement, then they may bring a civil action and seek declaratory relief, injunctive relief, nominal and compensatory damages, court costs, and reasonable attorney's fees. This bill provides that any person who sues to enforce the separation of church and state doctrine or the Establishment Clause against any person or entity in the state, or that represents any litigant seeking such relief, is jointly and severally liable to pay the costs and reasonable attorney's fees of the prevailing party, including the costs and reasonable attorney's fees the prevailing party incurred in its efforts to recover costs and fees. A party is considered a prevailing party if any of the following occur:  A court or an arbitrator dismisses a claim or cause of action brought against the party by a litigant that seeks the relief, regardless of the reason for the dismissal. A state or federal court or an arbitrator enters judgment in the party's favor on that claim or cause of action. The litigant that seeks the declaratory or injunctive relief voluntarily dismisses or nonsuits its claim or case against the party. This bill authorizes a prevailing party to recover costs and reasonable attorney's fees only to the extent that those costs and attorney's fees were incurred while defending claims or causes of action on which the party prevailed, or while attempting to recover those costs and attorney's fees. Regardless of whether a prevailing party sought to recover costs or attorney's fees in the underlying action, a prevailing party may bring a civil action to recover costs and attorney's fees against a person, including an entity, attorney, or law firm, who sought declaratory or injunctive relief no later than the third anniversary of the date of any of the following:  The dismissal or judgment becomes final on the conclusion of appellate review. The time for seeking appellate review expires. This bill provides that it is not a defense to a civil action brought if any of the following occur:  A prevailing party failed to seek recovery of costs or attorney's fees in the underlying action. The court or arbitrator in the underlying action declined to recognize or enforce this bill. The court or arbitrator in the underlying action held that any provisions of this bill are invalid, unconstitutional, or preempted by federal law, notwithstanding the doctrine of issue or claim preclusion This bill authorizes a civil action brought under this bill to be brought in any of the following locations:  The county in which all or a substantial part of the events or omissions giving rise to the claim occurred. The county of residence of a defendant at the time the cause of action accrued, if the defendant is an individual. The county of the principal office in this state of a defendant that is not an individual. The county of residence of the claimant, if the claimant is an individual residing in this state. If a civil action is so brought, then this bill prohibits the action from being transferred to a different venue without the written consent of all parties, and any contractual choice-of-forum provision that purports to require a civil action to be litigated in another forum is void based on this state's public policy and is not enforceable in any state or federal court.