By Gallegos                                           S.B. No. 1536
       74R1029 CAS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of certain school districts to employ or
    1-3  contract with a person who is a member or former member of the
    1-4  board of trustees.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 23, Education Code, is
    1-7  amended by adding Section 23.202 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 23.202.  EMPLOYMENT OR CONTRACT IN CERTAIN DISTRICTS.
    1-9  Notwithstanding Section 23.20 or 23.201, the board of trustees of a
   1-10  school district with an enrollment of 175,000 or more students may
   1-11  not employ a person or enter into a contract with a person during
   1-12  the period the person is a member of the board or earlier than the
   1-13  first anniversary of the date the person ceases to be a member of
   1-14  the board.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  Section 23.202, Education Code, as added by this
   1-16  Act, applies only to the employment of a person who is initially
   1-17  employed on or after the effective date of this Act and a contract
   1-18  that is signed or otherwise agreed to, by the final party whose
   1-19  signature or agreement is required for the contract to be
   1-20  effective, on or after the effective date of this Act.  Employment
   1-21  of or a contract with a person before that date is covered by the
   1-22  law in effect immediately before that date, and that law is
   1-23  continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-1        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.