Bill Text: TX HB717 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the election of trustees of certain school districts from single-member trustee districts.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB717 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB717-Introduced.html

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84R3402 JSL-D
By: Reynolds H.B. No. 717

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the election of trustees of certain school districts
from single-member trustee districts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 11.052, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (b-1) and amending Subsection (d) to read as
follows:
(b-1) The board of trustees of an independent school
district with the largest student enrollment in a county with a
population of 555,000 or more that is adjacent to a county with a
population of 3.3 million or more shall order that trustees of the
district are to be elected from single-member trustee districts.
Subsection (c) does not apply in the case of an order adopted under
this subsection.
(d) An order of the board adopted under Subsection (a), [or]
(b), or (b-1) must be entered not later than the 120th day before
the date of the first election at which all or some of the trustees
are elected from single-member trustee districts authorized by the
order.
SECTION 2. The board of trustees of a school district to
which Section 11.052(b-1), Education Code, as added by this Act,
applies shall adopt an order as required by that section not later
than December 31, 2015.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2015.