Bill Text: TX SB509 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the election of trustees of certain school districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-14 - Referred to Education [SB509 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB509-Introduced.html
86R1728 SRS-D | ||
By: Miles | S.B. No. 509 |
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relating to the election of trustees of certain school 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) Subsection (c) does not apply in the case of an order | ||
adopted under this subsection. 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 order that | ||
trustees of the district are to be elected in the following manner: | ||
(1) one trustee must be elected from the district at | ||
large; and | ||
(2) the remaining trustees must be elected from | ||
single-member trustee districts. | ||
(d) An order of the board adopted under Subsection (a), [ |
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(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, 2019. | ||
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, 2019. |