S.B. No. 1342
                                        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.  Subchapter A, Chapter 23, Education Code, is
   1-11  amended by adding Section 23.201 to read as follows:
   1-12        Sec. 23.201.  ELIGIBILITY TO CONTRACT WITH BOARD.  (a)  The
   1-13  board of trustees of a school district may not enter into a
   1-14  contract with a trustee of the district, the spouse of a trustee,
   1-15  or a business entity in which a trustee or the spouse of a trustee
   1-16  has a significant interest until the trustee's current term has
   1-17  expired or until the trustee has resigned and a successor has been
   1-18  chosen to fill the vacancy created by the resignation.
   1-19        (b)  In this section, the term "business entity" has the
   1-20  meaning provided by Section 171.001, Local Government Code.
   1-21        (c)  For purposes of this section, a person has a substantial
   1-22  interest in a business entity if the person has a substantial
   1-23  interest in the business entity for purposes of Chapter 171, Local
    2-1  Government Code.
    2-2        (d)  This section prevails over Chapter 171, Local Government
    2-3  Code, to the extent of any conflict.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  Subsection (a), Section 23.33, Education Code, is
    2-5  amended to read as follows:
    2-6        (a)  The State Board of Education shall adopt <appoint an
    2-7  advisory committee to develop> statewide standards for <on> the
    2-8  duties of a school board member as criteria to be used to develop
    2-9  board member training.  <The committee shall consist of at least 15
   2-10  persons knowledgeable in the management of the public schools of
   2-11  the state, and no less than five members of the committee shall
   2-12  consist of individuals currently serving as locally elected school
   2-13  board members.>
   2-14        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-20  passage, and it is so enacted.