By Madden H.B. No. 2243 75R7609 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to allowing an independent school district board to adopt 1-3 term limits for its members with voter approval. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 11, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 11.064 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 11.064. VOTER APPROVAL FOR TERM LIMITS. (a) The board 1-8 of trustees by resolution may limit the number of terms a trustee 1-9 may serve if the limit is approved by the voters of the 1-10 independent school district. 1-11 (b) In adopting term limits for a trustee under this 1-12 section, the board shall include: 1-13 (1) whether the limit applies to consecutive or 1-14 cumulative terms served; 1-15 (2) whether service to a partial term applies to the 1-16 term limit; 1-17 (3) whether the term limits are prospective or 1-18 retroactive to a certain date; and 1-19 (4) the date the term limits take effect. 1-20 (c) The board shall order an election to approve term limits 1-21 adopted under this section. The election is conducted in the same 1-22 manner as the district's general election except as provided by the 1-23 applicable provisions of the Election Code. At the election the 1-24 ballots shall be printed to permit voting for or against the 2-1 proposition: "Limiting the members of the board of trustees of the 2-2 (name of school district) Independent School District to (number of 2-3 terms) terms of service." 2-4 (d) Term limits adopted under this section take effect as 2-5 prescribed by the board only if a majority of the votes received in 2-6 the election approve the proposition. 2-7 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.