1-1     By:  West                                             S.B. No. 1357

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 18, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 10, 1997,

 1-4     reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0;

 1-5     April 10, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to compensation of school district trustees.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Subsection (d), Section 11.061, Education Code,

1-11     is amended to read as follows:

1-12           (d)  The trustees serve without compensation, unless

1-13     compensation of a specified amount, not to exceed $500 annually, is

1-14     approved by a majority of the votes cast at an election held by the

1-15     district.  The trustees may not hold an election solely for the

1-16     purpose of submitting a measure on trustee compensation to the

1-17     voters.  Notwithstanding this subsection, a trustee may not receive

1-18     compensation if the trustee:

1-19                 (1)  holds an office other than the position of trustee

1-20     that is considered a civil office of emolument under Section 40,

1-21     Article XVI, Texas Constitution; or

1-22                 (2)  receives other compensation directly or indirectly

1-23     from the state.

1-24           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-28     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-29     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-30     passage, and it is so enacted.

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