By: Johnson, J. H.B. No. 2837
73R8167 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to employment and training of a member of the board of
1-3 trustees of an independent school district.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 23, Education Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Section 23.20 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 23.20. ELIGIBILITY FOR EMPLOYMENT. An individual
1-8 serving as a member of the board of trustees of a school district
1-9 may not apply for or solicit employment with the school district
1-10 for which the individual is serving as a trustee before the
1-11 individual's current term as trustee has expired or before the
1-12 individual has resigned as trustee and a successor has been named
1-13 to fill the vacancy created by the resignation.
1-14 SECTION 2. Section 23.33(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-15 read as follows:
1-16 (a) The State Board of Education shall adopt <appoint an
1-17 advisory committee to develop> statewide standards on the duties of
1-18 a school board member that must be addressed in providing training
1-19 for<. The committee shall consist of at least 15 persons
1-20 knowledgeable in the management of the public schools of the state,
1-21 and no less than five members of the committee shall consist of
1-22 individuals currently serving as locally elected> school board
1-23 members under this section.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.