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.