By Garcia                                       H.B. No. 1015

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                                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.