By: Middleton S.B. No. 413

(In the Senate - Filed November 21, 2024; February 3, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government; March 17, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; March 17, 2025, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 413 By: Paxton

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the meetings of the boards of trustees of independent school districts.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 11.0621, Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 11.0621. MEETINGS. (a) The minutes[, certified agenda, or recording, as applicable,] of a regular or special meeting of the board of trustees must reflect each member's:

(1) attendance at or absence from the meeting; and

(2) vote on any item that is voted on by the board at the meeting.

(b) The board of trustees shall post on the district's Internet website:

(1) the minutes described by Subsection (a) not later than the seventh day after the date of a meeting at which a quorum of the board is present and voting; and

(2) any resolution adopted by the board not later than the seventh day after the date of the meeting at which the resolution was adopted.

(c) The board of trustees shall make a recording of each regular or special meeting of the board.

(d) The minutes and [or tape] recording of an open meeting must be accessible to the public in accordance with Section 551.022, Government Code.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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