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.