By: Middleton S.B. No. 1972
(In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2025; March 17, 2025, read
first time and referred to Committee on Education K-16;
April 22, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11,
Nays 0; April 22, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a limitation on rules, bylaws, and policies adopted by a
school district's board of trustees.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 11.151(d), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(d) The trustees may adopt rules and bylaws necessary to
carry out the powers and duties provided by Subsection (b). The
trustees may not adopt or enforce a rule, bylaw, or any other policy
that restricts a trustee's ability to share the trustee's opinion on
a matter voted on by the board of trustees or any other school
district matter.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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