Bill Text: TX HB1143 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the election of trustees of certain school districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-02 - Referred to Public Education [HB1143 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1143-Introduced.html
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| By: Reynolds | H.B. No. 1143 | |
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| relating to the election of trustees of certain school districts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 11.052(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) or Section 11.0521, | ||
| the board of trustees of an independent school district, on its own | ||
| motion, may order that trustees of the district are to be elected | ||
| from single-member trustee districts or that not fewer than 70 | ||
| percent of the members of the board of trustees are to be elected | ||
| from single-member trustee districts with the remaining trustees to | ||
| be elected from the district at large. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 11, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 11.0521 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 11.0521. MULTIMEMBER TRUSTEE DISTRICTS FOR CERTAIN | ||
| SCHOOL DISTRICTS. (a) This section applies only to an independent | ||
| school district with the largest student enrollment in a county | ||
| with a population of 550,000 or more that is adjacent to a county | ||
| with a population of 3.3 million or more. | ||
| (b) The board of trustees of an independent school district | ||
| to which this section applies shall: | ||
| (1) order that trustees of the district are to be | ||
| elected as follows: | ||
| (A) one trustee elected from the district at | ||
| large; and | ||
| (B) six trustees elected by position from two | ||
| multimember voting districts composed of three trustee positions | ||
| each; | ||
| (2) divide the school district as nearly as | ||
| practicable into two multimember voting districts of equal | ||
| population, with one voting district representing the west half of | ||
| the school district and the other voting district representing the | ||
| east half of the school district; and | ||
| (3) designate by number each position on the board of | ||
| trustees. | ||
| (c) Residents of each multimember voting district are | ||
| entitled to cast votes for each trustee position within the | ||
| multimember voting district. | ||
| SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the board of trustees of a school district to which | ||
| Section 11.0521, Education Code, as added by this Act, applies | ||
| shall adopt an order as required by that section. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
