Bumgarner Bill Caps Superintendent Pay, Except Allowances And Stipends

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89R2459 CMO-D

By: Bumgarner
H.B. No. 974

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a limitation on the salary of superintendents and chief

executive officers of school districts and open-enrollment charter

schools.

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

SECTION 1. Section 11.201, Education Code, is amended by

adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:

(b-1) A school district may not employ a superintendent for

an annual salary in an amount that is greater than the amount of the

annual salary authorized by the legislature for the governor. For

purposes of this subsection, a superintendent's annual salary:

(1) includes an amount paid by the district as a bonus;

and

(2) does not include an amount paid by the district as

an allowance or stipend.

SECTION 2. Section 12.136, Education Code, is amended to

read as follows:

Sec. 12.136. [ POSTING OF ] CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER SALARY.

(a) An open-enrollment charter school :

(1) may not employ a superintendent or, as applicable,

an administrator serving as educational leader and chief executive

officer for an annual salary in an amount that is greater than the

amount of the annual salary authorized by the legislature for the

governor; and

(2) shall post on the school's Internet website the

salary of the school's superintendent or, as applicable, of the

administrator serving as educational leader and chief executive

officer.

(b) For purposes of Subsection (a), a superintendent's or

chief executive officer's annual salary:

(1) includes an amount paid by the school as a bonus;

and

(2) does not include an amount paid by the school as an

allowance or stipend.

SECTION 3. This Act applies to an employment contract that

is entered into on or after September 1, 2025. An employment

contract that is entered into before September 1, 2025, is governed

by the law as it existed at the time the contract was entered into,

and the former law remains in effect for that purpose.

SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.