Bill Text: TX HB2562 | 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) 2025-02-07 - Filed [HB2562 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB2562-Introduced.html

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89R981 ANG-D
By: Isaac H.B. No. 2562

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 twice the amount
of the highest annual salary paid to a classroom teacher in the
district.
SECTION 2. Section 12.136, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 12.136. [POSTING OF] CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER SALARY.
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 twice
the amount of the highest annual salary paid to a classroom teacher
at the school; 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.
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.