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.