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.