By: Harris of Tarrant S.B. No. 1342
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to training and employment of school board members.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 23, Education Code, is
1-4 amended by adding Section 23.20 to read as follows:
1-5 Sec. 23.20. ELIGIBILITY FOR EMPLOYMENT. A trustee of a
1-6 school district is prohibited from applying for or soliciting
1-7 employment with that school district until the trustee's current
1-8 term has expired or until the trustee has resigned and a successor
1-9 has been named to fill the vacancy created by the resignation.
1-10 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 23.33, Education Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 (a) The State Board of Education shall adopt <appoint an
1-13 advisory committee to develop> statewide standards for <on> the
1-14 duties of a school board member as criteria to be used to develop
1-15 board member training. <The committee shall consist of at least 15
1-16 persons knowledgeable in the management of the public schools of
1-17 the state, and no less than five members of the committee shall
1-18 consist of individuals currently serving as locally elected school
1-19 board members.>
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.