Bill Text: TX SB230 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the continuing education requirement for county commissioners.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-26 - Effective immediately [SB230 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB230-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 230 | ||
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| relating to the continuing education requirement for county | ||
| commissioners. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 81.0025(a) and (b), Local Government | ||
| Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) A county commissioner must successfully complete at | ||
| least 16 [ |
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| performance of the duties of county commissioners at least once in | ||
| each 12-month period. | ||
| (b) Continuing education instruction required by this | ||
| section must be certified by an accredited public institution of | ||
| higher education. The instruction may be completed online with the | ||
| approval of the commissioners court, except a county commissioner | ||
| must complete the instruction in person in the first 12-month | ||
| period of the commissioner's first term. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2021. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 230 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 9, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that | ||
| the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 13, 2021, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 230 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 8, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 120, | ||
| Nays 19, two present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
