By Wise                                                H.B. No. 361
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to compensation of school district trustees.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 11.061(d), Education Code, is amended to
 1-5     read as follows:
 1-6           (d)  The trustees serve without compensation, unless
 1-7     compensation of a specified amount is approved by a majority of the
 1-8     votes cast at an election held by the district.  The trustees may
 1-9     not hold an election solely for the purpose of submitting a measure
1-10     on trustee compensation to the voters.  Notwithstanding this
1-11     subsection, a trustee may not receive compensation if the trustee:
1-12                 (1)  holds an office other than the position of trustee
1-13     that is considered a civil office of emolument under Section 40,
1-14     Article XVI, Texas Constitution; or
1-15                 (2)  receives other compensation directly or indirectly
1-16     from the state.
1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.