bill requiring standards for ending state oversight of districts

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89R5805 AMF-D

By: Goodwin
H.B. No. 4104

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the adoption of a list of performance standards for the

removal of a conservator, management team, or board of managers

appointed to a school district.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 39A, Education Code, is

amended by adding Section 39A.908 to read as follows:

Sec. 39A.908. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR REMOVAL OF

CONSERVATOR, MANAGEMENT TEAM, OR BOARD OF MANAGERS. (a) The

commissioner shall adopt a list of performance standards that a

school district to which a conservator, management team, or board

of managers has been appointed may meet for the conservator,

management team, or board of managers to be removed.

(b) The list of performance standards adopted under

Subsection (a) must:

(1) be based on current law and on nationwide best

practices;

(2) include:

(A) data-driven, school-specific strategies,

policies, or practices the conservator, management team, or board

of managers intends to implement;

(B) the desired outcomes for the strategies,

policies, or practices described by Paragraph (A); and

(C) data-driven benchmarks and incremental goals

for the district to meet for the conservator, management team, or

board of managers to be removed; and

(3) be published on the agency's Internet website.

(c) As soon as practicable after a school district meets all

performance standards adopted under Subsection (a), the

commissioner shall remove the conservator, management team, or

board of managers appointed to the district.

SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date

of this Act, the commissioner of education shall adopt the list of

performance standards as required by Section 39A.908, Education

Code, as added by this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.