By:  Maxey                                             H.B. No. 434
       73R2039 SOS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the election of members of the governing board of
    1-3  certain junior college districts from single-member districts.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 130.08221 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 130.08221.  ELECTION OF CERTAIN JUNIOR COLLEGE TRUSTEES
    1-8  FROM SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS.  (a)  The members of the governing
    1-9  board of a junior college district that was created by an
   1-10  independent school district board, that contains part or all of a
   1-11  municipality with a population of 460,000 or more, and that is not
   1-12  described by Section 130.088 of this code shall be elected from
   1-13  single-member trustee districts.
   1-14        (b)  The board of trustees shall divide the junior college
   1-15  district into nine compact and contiguous trustee districts that
   1-16  contain as nearly as practicable equal populations.  The voters of
   1-17  each trustee district are entitled to elect one trustee and each
   1-18  candidate for trustee must be a resident of the trustee district
   1-19  the candidate seeks to represent.  A trustee shall, during the
   1-20  trustee's term of office, reside in the trustee district from which
   1-21  the trustee was elected.
   1-22        (c)  A vacancy on the board representing a single-member
   1-23  district shall be filled by appointment made by the remaining
   1-24  members of the board.  To be eligible for appointment, the
    2-1  individual must be a resident of the trustee district.  An
    2-2  appointed trustee shall, during the term of the appointment, reside
    2-3  in the trustee district for which the trustee was appointed.  The
    2-4  appointed individual serves for the unexpired term.
    2-5        (d)  This section does not apply to the election of trustees
    2-6  in a junior college district in which the election of trustees is
    2-7  governed by a court order.
    2-8        SECTION 2.  A junior college district described by Section
    2-9  130.08221, Education Code, as added by this Act, shall begin
   2-10  electing trustees in accordance with that section beginning with
   2-11  its regular trustee elections in 1994.
   2-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-14  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   2-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.