H.B. No. 189
AN ACT
relating to a severance payment to a superintendent or
administrator serving as educational leader and chief executive
officer of an open-enrollment charter school.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 12.104, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (b-4) to read as follows:
(b-4) Section 11.201(c) applies to an open-enrollment
charter school as though the governing body of the school were the
board of trustees of a school district and to the superintendent or,
as applicable, the administrator serving as educational leader and
chief executive officer of the school as though that person were the
superintendent of a school district.
SECTION 2. Section 12.104(b-4), Education Code, as added by
this Act, applies only to a severance payment made by the governing
body of an open-enrollment charter school to a superintendent or
administrator serving as educational leader and chief executive
officer of the school under an agreement entered into on or after
the effective date of this Act. A severance payment made by the
governing body of an open-enrollment charter school to a
superintendent or administrator serving as educational leader and
chief executive officer of the school under an agreement entered
into before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
effect at the time the agreement was made, and that law is continued
in effect for that purpose.
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, 2021.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 189 was passed by the House on May 8,
2021, by the following vote: Yeas 132, Nays 7, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 189 was passed by the Senate on May
19, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor