Bill Text: TX HB4210 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the qualifications to serve as a member of a board of trustees of a military reservation school district and rules adopted by the State Board of Education for the governance of a special-purpose district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4210 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4210-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 4210 |
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relating to the qualifications to serve as a member of a board of | ||
trustees of a military reservation school district and rules | ||
adopted by the State Board of Education for the governance of a | ||
special-purpose district. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 11.352(b) and (c), Education Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) For each military reservation school district, the | ||
State Board of Education may appoint a board of three or five | ||
trustees. Enlisted military personnel and military officers may be | ||
appointed to the school board. A majority of the trustees appointed | ||
for the district must be civilians and all may be civilians. The | ||
trustees shall be selected from a list of persons who are qualified | ||
to serve as members of a school district board of trustees under | ||
Section 11.061 and who live on or are employed on the military | ||
reservation. A person who retires from active duty or civilian | ||
service while serving a term as a member of the board of trustees | ||
may continue to serve for the remainder of that person's term. The | ||
list shall be furnished to the board by the commanding officer of | ||
the military reservation. The trustees appointed serve terms of | ||
two years. | ||
(c) The State Board of Education shall [ |
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the governance of a special-purpose district. In the absence of a | ||
rule adopted under this subsection, the laws applicable to | ||
independent school districts apply to a special-purpose district. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 4210 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
2023, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 9, 3 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 4210 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
17, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |