Bill Text: TX HB610 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a severance payment to a superintendent of a school district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB610 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB610-Introduced.html
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By: Leo Wilson | H.B. No. 610 |
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relating to a severance payment to a superintendent of a school | ||
district. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 11.201(c), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) For purposes of this subsection, "severance payment" | ||
means any amount paid by the board of trustees of an independent | ||
school district to or in behalf of a superintendent on early | ||
termination of the superintendent's contract that exceeds the | ||
amount earned by the superintendent under the contract as of the | ||
date of termination, including any amount that exceeds the amount | ||
of earned standard salary and benefits that is paid as a condition | ||
of early termination of the contract. The board of trustees may not | ||
make a severance payment to a superintendent in an amount greater | ||
than six months' salary and benefits under the superintendent's | ||
terminated contract. The board of trustees that makes a severance | ||
payment to a superintendent shall report the terms of the severance | ||
payment to the commissioner. The commissioner shall reduce the | ||
district's Foundation School Program funds by any amount that the | ||
amount of the severance payment to the superintendent exceeds an | ||
amount equal to six months' [ |
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the superintendent's terminated contract. The commissioner may | ||
adopt rules as necessary to administer this subsection. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 11.201(c), Education Code, as amended by | ||
this Act, applies only to a severance payment made by the board of | ||
trustees of an independent school district to a superintendent | ||
under an agreement entered into on or after the effective date of | ||
this Act. A severance payment made by the board of trustees of an | ||
independent school district to a superintendent under an agreement | ||
entered into before the effective date of this Act is governed by | ||
the law in effect at the time the agreement was made, and that law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |