HB5606 • 2025

Relating to a sick leave pool for public school employees.

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Sponsor: Wilson
Last action: 2025-05-28
Official status: 05/28/2025 S Placed on intent calendar
Effective date: Not listed

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Relating to a sick leave pool for public school employees.

What This Bill Does

Relating to a sick leave pool for public school employees.

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Bill History

2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online
Co-sponsor authorized
2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on intent calendar
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Co-sponsor authorized
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken in committee
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Vote taken in committee
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably w/o amendments
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report printed and distributed
2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Education K-16
2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online
Received from the House
2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online
Read 3rd time
2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online
Passed
2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote. RV#2898
2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online
Reported engrossed
2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online
Read 2nd time
2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online
Passed to engrossment
2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote. RV#2793
2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on General State Calendar
2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in Calendars
2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report sent to Calendars
2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report distributed
2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in formal meeting
2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online
Committee substitute considered in committee
2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably as substituted
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Committee substitute considered in committee
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Public Education
2025-03-14 Texas Legislature Online
Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to a sick leave pool for public school employees.

Current Bill Text

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89(R) HB 5606 - Senate Committee Report version - Bill Text

By: Wilson (Senate Sponsor - Creighton)

H.B. No. 5606

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 19, 2025;

May 20, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on

Education K-16; May 27, 2025, reported favorably by the following

vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 27, 2025, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a sick leave pool for public school employees.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Education Code, is

amended by adding Section 22.0031 to read as follows:

Sec.

22.0031.

SICK LEAVE POOL.

(a)

Except as provided by

Subsection (b), the board of trustees of a school district or

governing body of an open-enrollment charter school shall establish

a program under which:

(1)

a retiring employee's accrued sick leave is

contributed to a sick leave pool on the retirement of the retiring

employee; and

(2)

sick leave contributed to the sick leave pool may

be used by a district or school employee who has exhausted the

employee's sick leave, subject to any district or school policy

regarding the use of sick leave.

(b)

The board of trustees of a school district or the

governing body of an open-enrollment charter school that adopted a

policy related to a retiring employee's accrued sick leave before

September 1, 2025, is not required to establish a program in

accordance with Subsection (a) if establishing the program would

conflict with that policy.

SECTION 2. Section 22.003(c-1), Education Code, is amended

to read as follows:

(c-1) Any informational handbook a school district provides

to employees in an electronic or paper form or makes available by

posting on the district website must include
information on the

sick leave pool created under Section 22.0031 and
notification of

an employee's rights under Subsection (b) in the relevant section

of the handbook. Any form used by a school district through which

an employee may request leave under this section must include

assault leave under Subsection (b) as an option.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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