Bill Text: TX HJR66 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing compensation for certain public school employees and certain retired public school employees serving as members of local governing bodies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-18 - Referred to Public Education [HJR66 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HJR66-Introduced.html

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83R1798 TJB-D
By: Raymond H.J.R. No. 66

A JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing compensation for
certain public school employees and certain retired public school
employees serving as members of local governing bodies.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 40(b), Article XVI, Texas Constitution,
is amended to read as follows:
(b) State employees or other individuals who receive all or
part of their compensation either directly or indirectly from funds
of the State of Texas and who are not State officers, shall not be
barred from serving as members of the governing bodies of school
districts, cities, towns, or other local governmental districts.
Such State employees or other individuals may not receive a salary
for serving as members of such governing bodies, except that:
(1) a public school employee or [schoolteacher,]
retired public school employee, other than a school district
superintendent or a retired school district superintendent,
[schoolteacher, or retired school administrator] may receive
compensation for serving as a member of a governing body of a school
district, city, town, or local governmental district, including a
water district created under Section 59, Article XVI, or Section
52, Article III; and
(2) a faculty member or retired faculty member of a
public institution of higher education may receive compensation for
serving as a member of a governing body of a water district created
under Section 59 of this article or under Section 52, Article III,
of this constitution.
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 5, 2013.
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
proposition: "The constitutional amendment authorizing
compensation for public school employees and retired public school
employees, other than superintendents or retired superintendents,
who are serving as members of local governing bodies."