By Wise                                          H.B. No. 748

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to compensation of school district trustees.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 11.061(d), Education Code, is amended to

 1-5     read as follows:

 1-6           (d)  The trustees serve without compensation, unless

 1-7     compensation of a specified amount is approved by a majority of the

 1-8     votes cast at an election held by the district.  The trustees may

 1-9     not hold an election solely for the purpose of submitting a measure

1-10     on trustee compensation to the voters.  Notwithstanding this

1-11     subsection, a trustee may not receive compensation if the trustee:

1-12                 (1)  holds an office other than the position of trustee

1-13     that is considered a civil office of emolument under Section 40,

1-14     Article XVI, Texas Constitution; or

1-15                 (2)  receives other compensation directly or indirectly

1-16     from the state.

1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.