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.