By: Harris of Tarrant S.B. No. 1341
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the duties of the superintendent of a school district.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 13.351, Education Code, is amended by
1-4 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-5 (c) The duties of the superintendent shall include:
1-6 (1) assuming administrative responsibility and
1-7 leadership for the planning, operation, and evaluation of the
1-8 education programs, services, and facilities of the district and
1-9 for the annual performance appraisal of the district's staff;
1-10 (2) assuming administrative authority and
1-11 responsibility for the assignment and evaluation of personnel of
1-12 the district other than the superintendent and making
1-13 recommendations regarding the selection, promotion, and dismissal
1-14 of the personnel;
1-15 (3) managing the daily operation of the district as
1-16 its chief executive officer;
1-17 (4) causing to be prepared a budget covering all
1-18 estimated revenue and proposed expenditures of the district for the
1-19 succeeding fiscal year, according to generally accepted accounting
1-20 principles, the rules and regulations established by the State
1-21 Board of Education, and policies adopted by the board of trustees,
1-22 and in accordance with the provisions of Subchapter C, Chapter 23,
1-23 Education Code;
2-1 (5) preparing recommendations for policies to be
2-2 established by the board of trustees and overseeing the
2-3 implementation of established policies;
2-4 (6) developing or causing the development of
2-5 appropriate administrative regulations to implement policies
2-6 established by the board of trustees;
2-7 (7) providing leadership for the attainment of student
2-8 performance standards in the district based on the indicators
2-9 adopted under Section 21.7531 of this code and other indicators
2-10 adopted by the State Board of Education or the district's board of
2-11 trustees; and
2-12 (8) performing any other duties assigned by the action
2-13 of the board of trustees of the district.
2-14 SECTION 2. Section 23.43, Education Code, is amended to read
2-15 as follows:
2-16 Sec. 23.43. DEPUTY BUDGET OFFICER. To assist him in the
2-17 professional and technical phases of budget preparation, the
2-18 president of the board of trustees shall designate as deputy budget
2-19 officer <the business manager, if any, of the district, or> the
2-20 superintendent of schools; and if the district has no
2-21 superintendent, the chief administrative employee of the district
2-22 shall be designated as deputy budget officer.
2-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-4 passage, and it is so enacted.