Bill Text: TX HB1679 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a study by the Texas Education Agency regarding recommended standards for school district facility maintenance and custodial services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-12-19 - Filed [HB1679 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1679-Introduced.html
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| By: Jones of Dallas | H.B. No. 1679 | |
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| relating to a study by the Texas Education Agency regarding | ||
| recommended standards for school district facility maintenance and | ||
| custodial services. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. DEFINITION. In this Act, "agency" means the | ||
| Texas Education Agency. | ||
| SECTION 2. STUDY REGARDING RECOMMENDED STANDARDS FOR | ||
| MAINTENANCE AND CUSTODIAL SERVICES. (a) The agency shall conduct a | ||
| study regarding recommended standards for school district | ||
| maintenance of facilities and custodial services, including a | ||
| standard for appropriate custodial workloads to adequately | ||
| maintain a school district's facilities. | ||
| (b) In conducting the study, the agency shall consider: | ||
| (1) the square footage of a typical elementary, | ||
| middle, and high school; | ||
| (2) the square footage of administrative and district | ||
| facilities other than instructional facilities in a typical school | ||
| district; | ||
| (3) appropriate levels of custodial service to provide | ||
| for proper maintenance of school district facilities; and | ||
| (4) the time required for different levels of | ||
| custodial service based on different numbers of custodial employees | ||
| and resources. | ||
| (c) The study must identify: | ||
| (1) the maintenance and custodial staff needed to | ||
| adequately meet a typical school district's needs; | ||
| (2) the tasks required to be completed by maintenance | ||
| and custodial staff, including time estimates for completion of | ||
| each task by an adequately equipped maintenance and custodial | ||
| staff; and | ||
| (3) any additional funding or other resources, if any, | ||
| needed by school districts to meet the standards recommended by the | ||
| study for school district maintenance of facilities and custodial | ||
| services. | ||
| SECTION 3. REPORT TO LEGISLATURE. Not later than December | ||
| 1, 2026, the agency shall submit a report to the legislature that | ||
| includes the results of the study conducted under Section 2 of this | ||
| Act and any associated recommendations. | ||
| SECTION 4. EXPIRATION. This Act expires September 1, 2027. | ||
| SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect | ||
| immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members | ||
| elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas | ||
| Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for | ||
| immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
