Bill Text: TX HB5606 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a sick leave pool for public school employees.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2025-05-28 - Placed on intent calendar [HB5606 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB5606-Comm_Sub.html
| 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.) | ||
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| 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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