Bill Text: TX SB2107 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a pilot program for outcomes-based contracts at public schools.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-24 - Referred to Education K-16 [SB2107 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB2107-Introduced.html
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| By: Creighton | S.B. No. 2107 | |
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| relating to a pilot program for outcomes-based contracts at public | ||
| schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 29.913 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 29.913. OUTCOMES-BASED CONTRACTS PILOT PROGRAM. (a) | ||
| The agency shall establish a pilot program through which school | ||
| districts and open-enrollment charter schools, in contracting for a | ||
| good or service related to student outcomes, use a funding model | ||
| that ties compensation to measurable student outcomes, including | ||
| academic performance, graduation rates, and skill proficiency. | ||
| (b) The agency shall select at least five school districts | ||
| and open-enrollment charter schools to participate in the pilot | ||
| program. | ||
| (c) To be eligible to participate in the pilot program, a | ||
| school district or open-enrollment charter school must agree to | ||
| enter into a contract for a good or service related to student | ||
| outcomes that: | ||
| (1) requires the contracting entity to: | ||
| (A) meet clearly defined outcome targets related | ||
| to increased student achievement; and | ||
| (B) use best practices; | ||
| (2) includes specific, quantifiable performance | ||
| metrics used to assess the effectiveness of the good or service in | ||
| making progress toward outcome targets described by Subdivision | ||
| (1)(A); | ||
| (3) provides for a funding structure that includes | ||
| incentives for meeting or exceeding outcome targets described by | ||
| Subdivision (1)(A); and | ||
| (4) allows flexibility in the implementation of | ||
| educational strategies tailored to the unique needs of each student | ||
| served. | ||
| (d) From money appropriated or otherwise available for the | ||
| purpose, the agency shall award grants to school districts and | ||
| open-enrollment charter schools participating in the pilot | ||
| program. The amount of each grant must be correlated to the | ||
| achievement of outcome targets described by Subsection (c)(1)(A) in | ||
| each contract entered into under the pilot program. | ||
| (e) Not later than December 1, 2028, the agency shall submit | ||
| to the legislature a report on the results of the pilot program. | ||
| The report must include the agency's recommendation on whether the | ||
| pilot program should be expanded or continued on a statewide basis. | ||
| (f) The commissioner may adopt rules as necessary to | ||
| implement the pilot program. | ||
| (g) This section expires September 1, 2029. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable but not later than six | ||
| months after the effective date of this Act, the Texas Education | ||
| Agency shall establish the pilot program required under Section | ||
| 29.913, Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| 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. | ||
