By Garcia H.B. No. 544
75R2179 KKA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to an optional majority vote requirement for election of
1-3 trustees in certain independent school districts.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 11.057, Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 11.057. DETERMINATION OF RESULTS; OPTIONAL MAJORITY
1-8 VOTE REQUIREMENT. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), in
1-9 [In] an independent school district in which the positions of
1-10 trustees are designated by number as provided by Section 11.058 or
1-11 in which the trustees are elected from single-member trustee
1-12 districts as provided by Section 11.052, the candidate receiving
1-13 the highest number of votes for each respective position voted on
1-14 is elected [entitled to serve as trustee].
1-15 (b) In a district in which the positions of trustees are not
1-16 designated by number or in which the trustees are not elected from
1-17 single-member trustee districts, the candidates receiving the
1-18 highest number of votes shall fill the positions the terms of which
1-19 are normally expiring.
1-20 (c) The board of trustees of an independent school district
1-21 in which the positions of trustees are designated by number or in
1-22 which the trustees are elected from single-member trustee districts
1-23 as provided by Section 11.052 may provide by resolution, not later
1-24 than the 120th day before the date of an election, that a candidate
2-1 must receive a majority of the votes cast for a position or in a
2-2 trustee district, as applicable, to be elected. A resolution
2-3 adopted under this subsection is effective until rescinded by a
2-4 subsequent resolution adopted not later than the 120th day before
2-5 the date of the first election to which the rescission applies.
2-6 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.