Bill Text: TX HB974 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to a limitation on the salary of superintendents and chief executive officers of school districts and open-enrollment charter schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB974 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB974-Introduced.html

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89R2459 CMO-D
By: Bumgarner H.B. No. 974

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a limitation on the salary of superintendents and chief
executive officers of school districts and open-enrollment charter
schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 11.201, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:
(b-1) A school district may not employ a superintendent for
an annual salary in an amount that is greater than the amount of the
annual salary authorized by the legislature for the governor. For
purposes of this subsection, a superintendent's annual salary:
(1) includes an amount paid by the district as a bonus;
and
(2) does not include an amount paid by the district as
an allowance or stipend.
SECTION 2. Section 12.136, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 12.136. [POSTING OF] CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER SALARY.
(a) An open-enrollment charter school:
(1) may not employ a superintendent or, as applicable,
an administrator serving as educational leader and chief executive
officer for an annual salary in an amount that is greater than the
amount of the annual salary authorized by the legislature for the
governor; and
(2) shall post on the school's Internet website the
salary of the school's superintendent or, as applicable, of the
administrator serving as educational leader and chief executive
officer.
(b) For purposes of Subsection (a), a superintendent's or
chief executive officer's annual salary:
(1) includes an amount paid by the school as a bonus;
and
(2) does not include an amount paid by the school as an
allowance or stipend.
SECTION 3. This Act applies to an employment contract that
is entered into on or after September 1, 2025. An employment
contract that is entered into before September 1, 2025, is governed
by the law as it existed at the time the contract was entered into,
and the former law remains in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.