Texas Education Code Title 2, Chapter 22 - School District Employees And Volunteers
SUBCHAPTER A RIGHTS, DUTIES, AND BENEFITS
- Texas Section 22.001 - Salary Deductions For Professional Dues
(a) A school district employee is entitled to have an amount deducted from the employee's salary for membership fees or dues to a professional organization....
- Texas Section 22.002 - Assignment, Transfer, Or Pledge Of Compensation
(a) In this section, "school employee" means any person employed by a school district in an executive, administrative, or clerical capacity or as a superintendent,...
- Texas Section 22.003 - Minimum Personal Leave Program
(a) A state minimum personal leave program consisting of five days per year personal leave with no limit on accumulation and transferable among districts shall...
- Texas Section 22.004 - Group Health Benefits For School Employees
(a) A district shall participate in the uniform group coverage program established under Chapter 1579, Insurance Code, as provided by Subchapter D of that chapter....
- Texas Section 22.005 - Health Care Plan And Fund
(a) The board of trustees of a school district may establish a health care plan for employees of the district and dependents of employees. (b)...
- Texas Section 22.006 - Discrimination Based On Jury Service Prohibited
(a) A school district may not discharge, discipline, reduce the salary of, or otherwise penalize or discriminate against a school district employee because of the...
- Texas Section 22.007 - Incentives For Early Retirement
A district may not offer or provide a financial or other incentive to an employee of the district to encourage the employee to retire from...
SUBCHAPTER B CIVIL IMMUNITY
- Texas Section 22.011 - Requiring Or Coercing Employees To Make Charitable Contributions
(a) A school district board of trustees or school district employee may not directly or indirectly require or coerce any school district employee to: (1)...
- Texas Section 22.051 - Definition; Other Immunity
(a) In this subchapter, "professional employee of a school district" includes: (1) a superintendent, principal, teacher, including a substitute teacher, supervisor, social worker, school counselor,...
- Texas Section 22.0511 - Immunity From Liability
(a) A professional employee of a school district is not personally liable for any act that is incident to or within the scope of the...
- Texas Section 22.0512 - Immunity From Disciplinary Proceedings For Professional Employees
(a) A professional employee of a school district may not be subject to disciplinary proceedings for the employee's use of physical force against a student...
- Texas Section 22.0513 - Notice Of Claim
(a) Not later than the 90th day before the date a person files a suit against a professional employee of a school district, the person...
- Texas Section 22.0514 - Exhaustion Of Remedies
A person may not file suit against a professional employee of a school district unless the person has exhausted the remedies provided by the school...
- Texas Section 22.0515 - Limitation On Damages
The liability of a professional employee of a school district or of an individual that is entitled to any immunity and other protections afforded under...
- Texas Section 22.0516 - Alternative Dispute Resolution
A court in which a judicial proceeding is being brought against a professional employee of a school district may refer the case to an alternative...
- Texas Section 22.0517 - Recovery Of Attorney's Fees In Action Against Professional Employee
In an action against a professional employee of a school district involving an act that is incidental to or within the scope of duties of...
- Texas Section 22.052 - Administration Of Medication By School District Employees Or Volunteer Professionals; Immunity From Liability
(a) On the adoption of policies concerning the administration of medication to students by school district employees, the school district, its board of trustees, and...
- Texas Section 22.053 - School District Volunteers
(a) A volunteer who is serving as a direct service volunteer of a school district is immune from civil liability to the same extent as...
- Texas Section 22.054 - Liability Of Certain Institutions Of Higher Education
(a) A private or independent institution of higher education is not liable for damages arising from an act or omission of a person associated with...
SUBCHAPTER C CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDS
- Texas Section 22.055 - Frivolous Suit Against Employee
A court may award costs and reasonable attorney's fees to a school district employee acting under color of employment to the same extent that a...
- Texas Section 22.081 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Department" means the Department of Public Safety. (2) "National criminal history record information" means criminal history record information obtained from the...
- Texas Section 22.082 - Access To Criminal History Records By State Board For Educator Certification
The State Board for Educator Certification shall subscribe to the criminal history clearinghouse as provided by Section 411.0845, Government Code, and may obtain from any...
- Texas Section 22.083 - Access To Criminal History Records Of Employees By Local And Regional Education Authorities
(a) A school district, open-enrollment charter school, or shared services arrangement shall obtain criminal history record information that relates to a person who is not...
- Texas Section 22.0831 - National Criminal History Record Information Review Of Certified Educators
(a) In this section, "board" means the State Board for Educator Certification. (b) This section applies to a person who is an applicant for or...
- Texas Section 22.0832 - National Criminal History Record Information Review Of Certain Open-enrollment Charter School Employees
(a) The agency shall review the national criminal history record information of an employee of an open-enrollment charter school to whom Section 12.1059 applies in...
- Texas Section 22.0833 - National Criminal History Record Information Review Of Noncertified Employees
(a) This section applies to a person who is not an applicant for or holder of a certificate under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, and who...
- Texas Section 22.0834 - Criminal History Record Information Review Of Certain Contract Employees
(a) This subsection applies to a person who is not an applicant for or holder of a certificate under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, and who...
- Texas Section 22.0835 - Access To Criminal History Records Of Student Teachers And Volunteers By Local And Regional Education Authorities
(a) A school district, open-enrollment charter school, or shared services arrangement shall obtain from the department and may obtain from any other law enforcement or...
- Texas Section 22.0836 - National Criminal History Record Information Review Of Substitute Teachers
(a) This section applies to a person who is a substitute teacher for a school district, open-enrollment charter school, or shared services arrangement. (b) A...
- Texas Section 22.0837 - Fee For National Criminal History Record Information
The agency by rule shall require a person submitting to a national criminal history record information review under Section 22.0832, 22.0833, or 22.0836 to pay...
- Texas Section 22.08391 - Confidentiality Of Information
(a) Information collected about a person to comply with this subchapter, including the person's name, address, phone number, social security number, driver's license number, other...
- Texas Section 22.084 - Access To Criminal History Records Of School Bus Drivers, Bus Monitors, And Bus Aides
(a) Except as provided by Subsections (c) and (d), a school district, open-enrollment charter school, private school, regional education service center, or shared services arrangement...
- Texas Section 22.085 - Employees And Applicants Convicted Of Certain Offenses
(a) A school district, open-enrollment charter school, or shared services arrangement shall discharge or refuse to hire an employee or applicant for employment if the...
- Texas Section 22.086 - Liability For Reporting Offenses
The State Board for Educator Certification, a school district, an open-enrollment charter school, a private school, a regional education service center, a shared services arrangement,...
SUBCHAPTER D HEALTH CARE SUPPLEMENTATION
- Texas Section 22.087 - Notification To State Board For Educator Certification
The superintendent of a school district or the director of an open-enrollment charter school, private school, regional education service center, or shared services arrangement shall...
- Texas Section 22.101 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Cafeteria plan" means a plan as defined and authorized by Section 125, Internal Revenue Code of 1986. (2) "Employee" means an...
- Texas Section 22.102 - Authority To Adopt Rules; Other Authority
(a) The agency may adopt rules to implement this subchapter. (b) The agency may enter into interagency contracts with any other agency of this state...
- Texas Section 22.103 - Designation Of Compensation As Health Care Supplementation
(a) An employee of a school district, other educational district that is a member of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, participating charter school, or...
- Texas Section 22.104 - Funds Held In Trust
All funds received by a district, other educational district, participating charter school, or regional education service center under this subchapter are held in trust for...
- Texas Section 22.105 - Written Election Required
Each school year, an active employee must elect in writing whether to designate a portion of the employee's compensation to be used as health care...
- Texas Section 22.106 - Use Of Designated Compensation
An employee may use compensation designated for health care supplementation under this subchapter for any employee benefit, including depositing the designated amount into a cafeteria...
SUBCHAPTER Z MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 22.107 - Wage Increase For Support Staff
(a) A school district shall pay each full-time district employee, other than an administrator or an employee subject to the minimum salary schedule under Section...
- Texas Section 22.901 - Unlawful Inquiry Into Religious Affiliation
(a) A person employed or maintained to obtain or aid in obtaining positions for public school employees may not directly or indirectly ask about, orally...
- Texas Section 22.902 - Instruction Related To Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation And Use Of Automated External Defibrillator
(a) A school district shall annually make available to district employees and volunteers instruction in the principles and techniques of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use...
Last modified: September 28, 2016