{
  "code": "DF",
  "title": "Termination of Employment",
  "description": "Conroe ISD Board Policy DF covers the conditions under which district employees and contractors may be terminated from employment. It outlines categories of prohibited conduct, including involvement in diversity and equity activities, assisting with student social transitioning, violating parental rights, and providing student health care without parental consent. The policy also addresses employee due process rights and requires the district to make the policy available to all employees and contractors.",
  "last_action_date": "2025-10-21",
  "last_action_result": "adopted",
  "timeline_local": [
    {
      "date": "2025-10-21",
      "school_year": "2025-2026",
      "action": "adopted",
      "result": "adopted",
      "summary": "This update to Conroe ISD's Board Policy DF (Local) – Termination of Employment adds several new sections prohibiting district employees and contractors from engaging in diversity/equity/inclusion duties, assisting with student social transitioning, infringing parental rights, providing student health care without parental consent, and violating Texas Education Code Section 28.0022. It also adds new sections establishing employee due process rights and a policy notification requirement.",
      "changes_added": [
        "Prohibited Actions – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Duties: District employees and contractors shall be prohibited from intentionally or knowingly engaging in or assigning to another person diversity, equity, and inclusion duties as defined in EMB (Local). A violation of this prohibition shall be cause for appropriate discipline, including termination. [See DFAA, DFBA, and DFCA for procedures for discipline, including termination, as appropriate.]",
        "Assistance with Social Transitioning: District employees shall be prohibited from assisting a student enrolled in the District with social transitioning as defined in EMB (Local), including by providing any information about social transitioning or providing guidelines intended to assist a person with social transitioning. A violation of this prohibition shall be cause for appropriate discipline, including termination. [See DFAA, DFBA, and DFCA for procedures for discipline, including termination, as appropriate.]",
        "Parental Rights section: Unless required by state or federal law, the fundamental rights granted to parents by their Creator and upheld by the United States Constitution, the Texas Constitution, and the laws of this state, including the right to direct the moral and religious training of the parent's child, make decisions concerning the child's education, and consent to medical, psychiatric, and psychological treatment of the parent's child under Section 151.001, Family Code, may not be infringed on, unless the infringement is: (1) necessary to further a compelling state interest, such as providing life-saving care to a child; and (2) narrowly tailored using the least restrictive means to achieve that compelling state interest. Unless otherwise provided by law, employees shall comply with this section and may not limit parental rights or withhold information from a parent regarding the parent's child. A violation of this prohibition shall be cause for appropriate discipline, including termination. [See DFAA, DFBA, and DFCA for procedures for discipline, including termination, as appropriate.]",
        "Student Health Care Without Parental Consent: In accordance with S.B. 12 (89th Texas Legislature, R.S.), an employee or contractor of the district must generally obtain the written consent of a child's parent in the manner required by law before the employee or contractor may: (1) conduct a psychological or psychiatric examination or[,] test, or psychological or psychiatric treatment, unless the examination, test, or treatment is required under Section 38.004 or state or federal law regarding requirements for special education; [or] (2) make or authorize the making of a videotape of a child or record or authorize the recording of a child's voice; (3) unless authorized by other law: (A) disclose a child's health or medical information to any person other than the child's parent; or (B) collect, use, store, or disclose to any person other than the child's parent a child's biometric identifiers; or (4) provide health care services or medication or conduct a medical procedure. A violation of this prohibition shall be cause for appropriate discipline, including termination. [See DFAA, DFBA, and DFCA for procedures for discipline, including termination, as appropriate.]",
        "Prohibition of Violation of Texas Education Code Section 28.0022: In accordance with S.B. 12 (89th Texas Legislature, R.S.), an employee or contractor shall not intentionally or knowingly engage in or assigns to another person an act prohibited by Texas Education Code Section 28.0022 or EMB (Local). A violation of this prohibition shall be cause for appropriate discipline, including termination. [See DFAA, DFBA, and DFCA for procedures for discipline, including termination, as appropriate.]",
        "Employee Rights: A contract employ disciplined under this policy must receive adequate due process and an opportunity to appeal disciplinary actions, including termination, in the same manner provided for other disciplinary actions.",
        "Policy Notification: The District shall make available a physical and electronic copy of this Policy and procedure to each district or school employee or contractor."
      ],
      "meeting_notes_url": "https://cisd-meetings.boardmonitor.app/meeting.html?id=2025-10-21_regular",
      "confidence": "high",
      "source_redline": "DF_LOCAL.pdf",
      "notes": "All red-underlined text appears to be entirely new additions to the policy with no red strikethrough (removed) text present. The cover page heading reads \"Discuss and Possibly Adopt Revisions to Board Policy DF (Local)\" which maps to action = 'adopted'. Note: \"contract employ\" in the Employee Rights section appears to be a typographical error in the source document (likely should read \"contract employee\")."
    },
    {
      "date": "2025-09-16",
      "school_year": "2025-2026",
      "action": "first_reading",
      "result": "first_reading",
      "summary": "This update to Conroe ISD's Board Policy DF (Local) – Termination of Employment adds several new prohibited action categories, including bans on DEI duties, assisting with student social transitioning, violating parental rights, conducting student health care without parental consent, and violating Texas Education Code Section 28.0022. It also adds new sections establishing employee due process rights and requiring the District to make the policy available to all employees and contractors.",
      "changes_added": [
        "Prohibited Actions – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Duties: District employees and contractors shall be prohibited from intentionally or knowingly engaging in or assigning to another person diversity, equity, and inclusion duties as defined in EMB (Local). A violation of this prohibition shall be cause for appropriate discipline, including termination. [See DFAA, DFBA, and DFCA for procedures for discipline, including termination, as appropriate.]",
        "Prohibited Actions – Assistance with Social Transitioning: District employees shall be prohibited from assisting a student enrolled in the District with social transitioning as defined in EMB (Local), including by providing any information about social transitioning or providing guidelines intended to assist a person with social transitioning. A violation of this prohibition shall be cause for appropriate discipline, including termination. [See DFAA, DFBA, and DFCA for procedures for discipline, including termination, as appropriate.]",
        "Unless required by state or federal law, the fundamental rights granted to parents by their Creator and upheld by the United States Constitution, the Texas Constitution, and the laws of this state, including the right to direct the moral and religious training of the parent's child, make decisions concerning the child's education, and consent to medical, psychiatric, and psychological treatment of the parent's child under Section 151.001, Family Code, may not be infringed on, unless the infringement is: (1) necessary to further a compelling state interest, such as providing life-saving care to a child; and (2) narrowly tailored using the least restrictive means to achieve that compelling state interest. Unless otherwise provided by law, employees shall comply with this section and may not limit parental rights or withhold information from a parent regarding the parent's child. A violation of this prohibition shall be cause for appropriate discipline, including termination. [See DFAA, DFBA, and DFCA for procedures for discipline, including termination, as appropriate.]",
        "Student Health Care Without Parental Consent: In accordance with S.B. 12 (89th Texas Legislature, R.S.), an employee or contractor of the district must generally obtain the written consent of a child's parent in the manner required by law before the employee or contractor may: (1) conduct a psychological or psychiatric examination or[,] test, or psychological or psychiatric treatment, unless the examination, test, or treatment is required under Section 38.004 or state or federal law regarding requirements for special education; [or] (2) make or authorize the making of a videotape of a child or record or authorize the recording of a child's voice; (3) unless authorized by other law: (A) disclose a child's health or medical information to any person other than the child's parent; or (B) collect, use, store, or disclose to any person other than the child's parent a child's biometric identifiers; or (4) provide health care services or medication or conduct a medical procedure. A violation of this prohibition shall be cause for appropriate discipline, including termination. [See DFAA, DFBA, and DFCA for procedures for discipline, including termination, as appropriate.]",
        "Prohibition of Violation of Texas Education Code Section 28.0022: In accordance with S.B. 12 (89th Texas Legislature, R.S.), an employee or contractor shall not intentionally or knowingly engage in or assigns to another person an act prohibited by Texas Education Code Section 28.0022 or EMB (Local). A violation of this prohibition shall be cause for appropriate discipline, including termination. [See DFAA, DFBA, and DFCA for procedures for discipline, including termination, as appropriate.]",
        "Employee Rights: A contract employ disciplined under this policy must receive adequate due process and an opportunity to appeal disciplinary actions, including termination, in the same manner provided for other disciplinary actions.",
        "Policy Notification: The District shall make available a physical and electronic copy of this Policy and procedure to each district or school employee or contractor."
      ],
      "meeting_notes_url": "https://cisd-meetings.boardmonitor.app/meeting.html?id=2025-09-16_regular",
      "confidence": "high",
      "source_redline": "DF_LOCAL.pdf",
      "notes": "All red-underlined text appears to be entirely new additions to the policy; no red strikethrough (removed) text was identified. The document is labeled Update: 1, confirming this is a new local policy. The cover page heading reads \"Discuss Revisions to Board Policy DF (Local)\" indicating a first reading. Minor typographical inconsistency in the Employee Rights section (\"employ\" instead of \"employee\") was transcribed exactly as written in the document."
    }
  ],
  "timeline_legal": [],
  "policy_connect_url": "https://policyconnect.org/policy/conroe-isd/DF"
}