TX SB1565

Prohibits school districts and open-enrollment charter schools from assigning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) duties to employees, contractors, or volunteers, including influencing hiring based on race/sex/ethnicity, providing differential treatment based on race/color/ethnicity, developing training programs referencing race/gender identity/sexual orientation, or requiring DEI statements

Requires districts to adopt discipline policies, including termination, for employees or contractors who engage in prohibited DEI activities or violate curriculum restrictions under Section 28.0022

Establishes a detailed local grievance procedure with specific timelines: parents must receive acknowledgment within 2 school business days, campus-level decisions within 14 days, superintendent appeal decisions within 14 days, and board hearings at the next regular meeting after 14 days

Creates a hearing examiner process through the commissioner for unresolved grievances involving DEI prohibitions, curriculum violations, health/safety provisions, or open meetings violations, with hearings completed within 60 business days and decisions being final and non-appealable

Requires superintendents to certify compliance annually by September 30 through board-approved submissions to TEA, and mandates superintendent testimony before the State Board of Education if a district loses five or more grievance hearings in a school year