Bill Text: TX SB550 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring public institutions of higher education to post information regarding the compensation of certain employees and independent contractors on the institution's Internet website.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-12-06 - Filed [SB550 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB550-Introduced.html
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| By: Kolkhorst | S.B. No. 550 | |
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| relating to requiring public institutions of higher education to | ||
| post information regarding the compensation of certain employees | ||
| and independent contractors on the institution's Internet website. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 51.9612 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.9612. REQUIRED POSTING OF CERTAIN EMPLOYEE AND | ||
| INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR COMPENSATION. (a) In this section, | ||
| "institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 61.003. | ||
| (b) Subject to Subsection (c), not later than December 1 of | ||
| each year, each institution of higher education shall post on the | ||
| institution's Internet website a report that discloses the name and | ||
| compensation of each institution employee or independent | ||
| contractor whose combined salary and other compensation, or payment | ||
| for services performed for the institution as an independent | ||
| contractor, as applicable, exceeds $100,000 per year. The report | ||
| must: | ||
| (1) present the information in the same format as an | ||
| administrative accountability report on compensation provided to | ||
| high-ranking administrative employees required to be submitted to | ||
| the Legislative Budget Board under the General Appropriations Act, | ||
| if any; and | ||
| (2) be accessible through a conspicuous link on the | ||
| institution's Internet website home page. | ||
| (c) The commissioner of higher education may grant an | ||
| institution of higher education an exemption from disclosing the | ||
| name and compensation of an employee or independent contractor in | ||
| the report required under Subsection (b) if the commissioner | ||
| determines that: | ||
| (1) the information is confidential under applicable | ||
| state or federal law; or | ||
| (2) disclosure of the information poses a substantial | ||
| risk of placing the institution at a serious competitive | ||
| disadvantage. | ||
| (d) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may adopt | ||
| rules as necessary to implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2025, each public | ||
| institution of higher education shall post on its Internet website | ||
| the initial report required by Section 51.9612, Education Code, as | ||
| added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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. | ||
