By Montford                                            S.B. No. 416
       74R2787 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to permitting an independent school district to elect
    1-3  members to its board of trustees by cumulative or limited voting.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 23, Education Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 23.026 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 23.026.  ELECTING TRUSTEES THROUGH CUMULATIVE OR LIMITED
    1-8  VOTING.  (a)  An independent school district that elects more than
    1-9  one trustee at large in an election may conduct the election using
   1-10  a cumulative or limited voting procedure approved by the secretary
   1-11  of state.
   1-12        (b)  The secretary of state shall adopt rules to administer a
   1-13  cumulative or limited voting procedure authorized by this section.
   1-14        (c)  Except for the rules adopted under Subsection (b), the
   1-15  election is held in the same manner that a district generally uses
   1-16  in electing trustees to its board.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.