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.