Bill Text: TX SB413 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the meetings of the boards of trustees of independent school districts.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [SB413 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB413-Enrolled.html

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S.B. No. 413

AN ACT
relating to the meetings of the boards of trustees of independent
school districts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 11.0621, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 11.0621. MEETINGS. (a) The minutes, as approved by
the board of trustees, [certified agenda, or recording, as
applicable,] of a regular or special meeting of the board of
trustees must reflect each member's:
(1) attendance at or absence from the meeting; and
(2) vote on any item that is voted on by the board at
the meeting.
(b) The board of trustees shall post on the district's
Internet website:
(1) the minutes described by Subsection (a) not later
than the seventh day after the date of a meeting at which a quorum of
the board is present and voting; and
(2) any resolution adopted by the board not later than
the seventh day after the date of the meeting at which the
resolution was adopted.
(c) The board of trustees shall make a recording of each
regular or special meeting of the board.
(d) The minutes and [or tape] recording of an open meeting
must be accessible to the public in accordance with Section
551.022, Government Code.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 413 passed the Senate on
April 10, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 30, 2025, by the
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 413 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 134,
Nays 0, two present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor