Bill Text: TX SB1870 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the date on which an election for trustees of certain school districts must be held.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-26 - Referred to Education [SB1870 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1870-Introduced.html
87R5821 MLH-D | ||
By: Miles | S.B. No. 1870 |
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relating to the date on which an election for trustees of certain | ||
school districts must be held. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 11.0581, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), an [ |
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for trustees of an independent school district shall be held on the | ||
same date as: | ||
(1) the election for the members of the governing body | ||
of a municipality located in the school district; | ||
(2) the general election for state and county | ||
officers; | ||
(3) the election for the members of the governing body | ||
of a hospital district, if the school district: | ||
(A) is wholly or partly located in a county with a | ||
population of less than 40,000 that is adjacent to a county with a | ||
population of more than three million; and | ||
(B) held its election for trustees jointly with | ||
the election for the members of the governing body of the hospital | ||
district before May 2007; or | ||
(4) the election for the members of the governing | ||
board of a public junior college district in which the school | ||
district is wholly or partly located. | ||
(a-1) An election for the board of trustees of 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 shall be held on the | ||
November uniform election date as a joint election under Chapter | ||
271, Election Code, with any other election occurring on that date | ||
in all or part of the same county. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |