Applies to districts entitled to the allotment under Section 48.101(b).
This bill changes the rule that bars a school board trustee from taking a job with their own district until one year after leaving the board. It exempts trustees of districts that are entitled to a specific state funding allotment under Section 48.101(b) of the Education Code. In those districts, a sitting or just-departed trustee could be hired by the district right away, while the one-year wait stays in place everywhere else.
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relating to the eligibility of a trustee of certain school
districts for employment by those districts.
WHAT IT DOES
Applies to districts entitled to the allotment under Section 48.101(b).
This bill changes the rule that bars a school board trustee from taking a job with their own district until one year after leaving the board. It exempts trustees of districts that are entitled to a specific state funding allotment under Section 48.101(b) of the Education Code. In those districts, a sitting or just-departed trustee could be hired by the district right away, while the one-year wait stays in place everywhere else.
CHARGES
[ ] NONE FOUND
TOTAL
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
Names were not printed for yea. Only the named positions are included in member records.
Sources
Senator Blanco moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that SB 1581 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 30 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: 1 (derived from named list)
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Education--Primary & Secondary--Other School Personnel
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The text as introduced · 169 words
89R5990 GP-D
By: Blanco
S.B. No. 1581
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the eligibility of a trustee of certain school
districts for employment by those districts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 11.063, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 11.063. ELIGIBILITY FOR EMPLOYMENT. (a) Except as
provided by Subsection (b), a [ A ] trustee of an independent school
district may not accept employment with that school district until
the first anniversary of the date the trustee's membership on the
board ends.
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to the trustee of a school
district that is entitled to an allotment under Section 48.101(b).
SECTION 2. 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.
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