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89(R) HB 610 - Engrossed version - Bill Text
By: Leo Wilson, Bumgarner, Capriglione,
H.B. No. 610
Canales, et al.
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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
or a board of managers appointed under Chapter 39A
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 or board of managers, as
applicable, 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
or
board of managers, as applicable,
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'
[
one year's
] salary and benefits under 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 or board of managers
appointed under Chapter 39A, Education Code, 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 or board of managers appointed under
Chapter 39A, Education Code, 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.