By Garcia H.B. No. 1015 75R4871 ESH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to term limits for school trustees. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 11, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 11.0541 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 11.0541. LIMIT ON TERMS. (a) A person is not eligible 1-7 to be elected to the board of trustees of an independent school 1-8 district if: 1-9 (1) before the date of the election, the person has 1-10 served as a member of the board of trustees; and 1-11 (2) on completion of the term for which the person 1-12 seeks election, the person would have served more than: 1-13 (A) nine years, if trustees in the district 1-14 serve terms of three years; or 1-15 (B) eight years, if trustees in the district 1-16 serve terms of four years. 1-17 (b) Subsection (a)(2) applies to a person regardless of 1-18 whether the person served consecutive terms as trustee. 1-19 (c) Subsection (a)(2) does not apply to a person who would 1-20 serve more than nine or eight years, as applicable, but fewer than 1-21 10 or nine years, as applicable, as a member of a board of trustees 1-22 only because of a change in the date on which trustee elections are 1-23 held. 1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-1 SECTION 3. Section 11.0541, Education Code, as added by this 2-2 Act, applies only to service on the board of trustees of a school 2-3 district for a term that begins on or after September 1, 1997. 2-4 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.