2004 House Bill 5475 ↩

House Roll Call 738: Passed

To require the Department of Education to post on a website certain details regarding individual Intermediate School Districts (ISDs) expenditures. Among these would be the dates, purpose and locations of travel for personnel whose annual travel expenses exceed $3,000, including air travel, lodging, car rental, and meal costs; details on certain contracts and subcontracts where a board member, administrator or family member had a monetary interest; the salaries, expense accounts, bonuses, stipends, etc. of certain high-paid personnel; fiber optic network and software costs; the total budget percentages, amounts and details of payments for administrative costs public relations, polling, lobbying, or legal services; the amounts and details of payments of over $25,000 to independent contractors; a list and descriptions of cars owned or leased by the ISD; and more. House Bill 5627 requires ISDs to report this information to the state.