By Haggerty H.B. No. 2666
74R7425 ESH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the term of office of trustees in certain school
1-3 districts.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 23.15, Education Code, is amended by
1-6 amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsections (e)-(g) to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (d) After the first election in the transition to four-year
1-9 terms under Subsection (c), three or four members shall be elected
1-10 biennially for terms of four years.
1-11 (e) This subsection applies only to an independent school
1-12 district that has an average daily attendance of at least 45,000
1-13 students, that is located in a county bordering New Mexico and the
1-14 United Mexican States, and whose trustees serve three-year terms.
1-15 The board of trustees by resolution may order that the terms of
1-16 office be increased to four years. The transition to four-year
1-17 terms under this subsection begins with the first regular election
1-18 held more than 75 days after the date of the order of the board as
1-19 provided by Subsection (f). Trustees in office on the date of the
1-20 order shall serve for the remainder of their terms. Trustees in a
1-21 school district that adopts four-year terms under this subsection
1-22 and whose average daily attendance drops below 45,000 students
1-23 shall continue to serve four-year terms.
1-24 (f) The length of the terms for trustees elected at the
2-1 first regular election in the transition to four-year terms is
2-2 determined in accordance with the following:
2-3 (1) if the order in which the three-year terms expire
2-4 results in two trustees being elected at the first election, two
2-5 trustees being elected at the second annual election, and three
2-6 trustees being elected at the third annual election:
2-7 (A) the trustees elected at the first election
2-8 after adoption of four-year terms serve terms of four years;
2-9 (B) the trustees elected at the second election
2-10 after adoption of four-year terms shall draw lots so that one
2-11 serves for a term of one year and one serves for a term of three
2-12 years; and
2-13 (C) the trustees elected at the third election
2-14 after adoption of four-year terms serve terms of four years;
2-15 (2) if the order in which the three-year terms expire
2-16 results in three trustees being elected at the first election, two
2-17 trustees being elected at the second annual election, and two
2-18 trustees being elected at the third annual election:
2-19 (A) the trustees elected at the first election
2-20 after adoption of four-year terms serve terms of four years;
2-21 (B) the trustees elected at the second election
2-22 after adoption of four-year terms shall draw lots so that one
2-23 serves for a term of one year and one serves for a term of three
2-24 years; and
2-25 (C) the trustees elected at the third election
2-26 after adoption of four-year terms serve terms of four years; and
2-27 (3) if the order in which the three-year terms expire
3-1 results in two trustees being elected at the first election, three
3-2 trustees being elected at the second annual election, and two
3-3 trustees being elected at the third annual election:
3-4 (A) the trustees elected at the first election
3-5 after adoption of four-year terms serve terms of four years;
3-6 (B) the trustees elected at the second election
3-7 after adoption of four-year terms shall draw lots so that one
3-8 serves for a term of one year and two serve for a term of three
3-9 years; and
3-10 (C) the trustees elected at the third election
3-11 after adoption of four-year terms serve terms of four years.
3-12 (g) After the three annual elections in the transition to
3-13 four-year terms under Subsection (f), three or four members shall
3-14 be elected biennially for terms of four years.
3-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
3-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-21 passage, and it is so enacted.