Bill Text: TX SB1619 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the availability of certain information regarding school district employee compensation and employment contracts and to the term of a contract for a teacher and a superintendent of a school district.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-14 - Referred to Education [SB1619 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB1619-Introduced.html
  86R9124 MM-D
 
  By: Hall S.B. No. 1619
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the availability of certain information regarding
  school district employee compensation and employment contracts and
  to the term of a contract for a teacher and a superintendent of a
  school district.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 11.1519 to read as follows:
         Sec. 11.1519.  POSTING OF DISTRICT EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION AND
  CONTRACT INFORMATION.  (a)  In this section, "compensation" means
  salaries, wages, and employment stipends.
         (b)  Not later than the 30th day after the date the agency
  posts the information submitted by the district under the Public
  Education Information Management System (PEIMS), a school district
  that maintains an Internet website shall post on the district's
  website:
               (1)  a listing of each district employee and the
  employee's compensation for the school year;
               (2)  subject to Subsection (d), a copy of a contract
  signed by:
                     (A)  the district's superintendent;
                     (B)  an athletic director; and 
                     (C)  each coach of any extracurricular athletic
  activity employed by the district; and 
               (3)  a blank copy of each type of contract used by the
  district under Section 21.002(a).
         (c)  If a school district does not maintain an Internet
  website, the district shall submit the information required by
  Subsection (b) to the agency within the period provided by that
  subsection.  On receipt of the information submitted under this
  subsection, the agency shall post the district's information on the
  agency's Internet website.
         (d)  A copy of a contract described by Subsection (b)(2) that
  is posted on an Internet website under that subsection or
  Subsection (c) must be redacted to exclude any information that is
  confidential under Chapter 552, Government Code.
         (e)  Information posted on an Internet website by a school
  district or the agency as required by this section must be
  maintained on that website until the applicable entity posts the
  information for the following school year.
         (f)  The commissioner may adopt rules as necessary to
  implement this section.
         SECTION 2.  Section 11.201(b), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (b)  The board of trustees of an independent school district
  may employ by contract a superintendent for a term not to exceed the
  length of the term of a trustee of the district [five years].
         SECTION 3.  Section 21.205, Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 21.205.  TERM OF CONTRACT. Except as provided by
  Section 11.201(b), once [Once] a teacher has completed the
  probationary contract period, the term of a contract under this
  subchapter may not exceed five school years.
         SECTION 4.  Section 21.206, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
         (d)  The board of trustees may not renew a teacher's term
  contract earlier than the sixth month before the contract ends.
         SECTION 5.  Section 21.212, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
         (g)  The board of trustees may not renew a superintendent's
  term contract earlier than the sixth month before the contract
  ends.
         SECTION 6.  Section 11.201(b), Education Code, as amended by
  this Act, and Sections 21.206(d) and 21.212(g), Education Code, as
  added by this Act, apply only to a contract executed on or after the
  effective date of this Act. A contract executed before the
  effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
  date the contract was executed, and the former law is continued in
  effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 7.  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, 2019.
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