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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