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School boards superintendents may no longer receive nice severance packages when leaving if the Texas Legislature has its way. Currently, they are reviewing two new bills so that school boards would no longer have the option to give up some state funding in order to get rid of superintendents who have fallen out of favor. Lawmakers on the House Committee on Public Education heard testimony on one of two bills that have been proposed to limit superintendent severance agreements to one year’s salary. In presenting HB 880, freshman state Rep. Gina Calanni, D-Katy, called packages issued by school districts as a “mismanagement of funding.” The measure would only apply to public schools. Currently, districts that pay a departing superintendent more in severance than is called for in the official’s contract have their state funding reduced through Texas’ main school funding program.