Bill Text: TX HB4276 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the Paris Junior College District.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB4276 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB4276-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 4276 | ||
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| relating to the Paris Junior College District. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 130, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 130.0829 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 130.0829. GOVERNING BOARD OF PARIS JUNIOR COLLEGE | ||
| DISTRICT. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this | ||
| subchapter, the governing board of the Paris Junior College | ||
| District may provide by resolution or order of the board for the | ||
| election of nine board members as follows: | ||
| (1) eight members elected from respective | ||
| commissioner precincts and evenly allocated among those precincts; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) one member elected at large. | ||
| (b) A resolution or order of the governing board under | ||
| Subsection (a) must establish transition terms of office to conform | ||
| to elections held in even-numbered years and staggered six-year | ||
| terms. | ||
| (c) Notwithstanding Section 41.0052, Election Code, the | ||
| governing board of the Paris Junior College District by resolution | ||
| or order of the board may change the date on which the district | ||
| holds its general election for board members to the November | ||
| uniform election date. The governing board shall adjust the terms | ||
| of office to conform to a change made to the election date under | ||
| this subsection. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 4276 was passed by the House on May 9, | ||
| 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 4276 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
