By: Carona S.B. No. 232
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to an optional majority vote requirement for election of
1-2 trustees in certain independent school districts.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 11.057, Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 11.057. DETERMINATION OF RESULTS; OPTIONAL MAJORITY
1-7 VOTE REQUIREMENT. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), in
1-8 [In] an independent school district in which the positions of
1-9 trustees are designated by number as provided by Section 11.058 or
1-10 in which the trustees are elected from single-member trustee
1-11 districts as provided by Section 11.052, the candidate receiving
1-12 the highest number of votes for each respective position voted on
1-13 is elected [entitled to serve as trustee].
1-14 (b) In a district in which the positions of trustees are not
1-15 designated by number or in which the trustees are not elected from
1-16 single-member trustee districts, the candidates receiving the
1-17 highest number of votes shall fill the positions the terms of which
1-18 are normally expiring.
1-19 (c) The board of trustees of an independent school district
1-20 in which the positions of trustees are designated by number or in
1-21 which the trustees are elected from single-member trustee districts
1-22 as provided by Section 11.052 may provide by resolution, not later
1-23 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2-3 adopted under this subsection is effective until rescinded by a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. Section 11.057, Education Code, as amended by
2-7 this Act, does not require a school district to elect trustees in a
2-8 manner other than the manner the district was using to elect
2-9 trustees on June 1, 1997.
2-10 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-11 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.