Bill Text: TX HB3372 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting certain personal services performed by school district administrators; providing a civil penalty.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2025-06-22 - Effective immediately [HB3372 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB3372-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3372 | ||
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| relating to prohibiting certain personal services performed by | ||
| school district administrators; providing a civil penalty. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 11, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 11.006 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 11.006. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES BY ADMINISTRATORS. (a) | ||
| In this section, "administrator" means a person who has significant | ||
| administrative duties relating to the operation of a school | ||
| district, including the operation of a campus, program, or other | ||
| subdivision of the district. The term does not include: | ||
| (1) a school district employee whose employment | ||
| contract responsibilities primarily include the in-classroom | ||
| instruction of students; or | ||
| (2) a trustee of a school district. | ||
| (b) An administrator may not receive any financial benefit | ||
| for the performance of personal services for: | ||
| (1) any business entity that conducts or solicits | ||
| business with the school district that employs the administrator; | ||
| (2) except as provided by Subsection (c), an education | ||
| business that provides services regarding the curriculum or | ||
| administration of any school district; or | ||
| (3) except as provided by Subsection (c), another | ||
| school district, open-enrollment charter school, or regional | ||
| education service center. | ||
| (c) An administrator, other than a member of a board of | ||
| managers, superintendent, or assistant superintendent, may receive | ||
| a financial benefit under Subsection (b)(2) or (3) if: | ||
| (1) a written contract describing the services to be | ||
| performed by the administrator is provided to the board of trustees | ||
| of the administrator's employing district; and | ||
| (2) the board of trustees for the administrator's | ||
| employing district votes to approve the contract after determining | ||
| that: | ||
| (A) the contract will not harm the district; | ||
| (B) the arrangement does not present a conflict | ||
| of interest; and | ||
| (C) the services to be performed by the | ||
| administrator will be performed entirely on the administrator's | ||
| personal time. | ||
| (d) A contract provided to a board of trustees under | ||
| Subsection (c) is subject to disclosure under Chapter 552, | ||
| Government Code. | ||
| (e) An administrator who violates this section is liable to | ||
| the state for a civil penalty in the amount of $10,000 for each | ||
| violation. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 11.201(e), Education Code, is repealed. | ||
| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3372 was passed by the House on May | ||
| 15, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
| H.B. No. 3372 on May 29, 2025, and requested the appointment of a | ||
| conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
| houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
| on H.B. No. 3372 on May 31, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 121, | ||
| Nays 6, 3 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3372 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 27, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays | ||
| 1; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
| committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
| that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
| 3372 on May 31, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
