By Walker H.B. No. 441
76R2099 ESH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the application of nepotism prohibitions to certain
1-3 school districts.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 573.061, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 573.061. GENERAL EXCEPTIONS. Section 573.041 does not
1-8 apply to:
1-9 (1) an appointment to the office of a notary public or
1-10 to the confirmation of that appointment;
1-11 (2) an appointment of a page, secretary, attendant, or
1-12 other employee by the legislature for attendance on any member of
1-13 the legislature who, because of physical infirmities, is required
1-14 to have a personal attendant;
1-15 (3) a confirmation of the appointment of an appointee
1-16 appointed to a first term on a date when no individual related to
1-17 the appointee within a degree described by Section 573.002 was a
1-18 member of or a candidate for the legislature, or confirmation on
1-19 reappointment of the appointee to any subsequent consecutive term;
1-20 (4) an appointment or employment of a bus driver by a
1-21 school district if:
1-22 (A) the district is located wholly in a county
1-23 with a population of less than 35,000; or
1-24 (B) the district is located in more than one
2-1 county and the county in which the largest part of the district is
2-2 located has a population of less than 35,000; [or]
2-3 (5) an appointment or employment of a personal
2-4 attendant by an officer of the state or a political subdivision of
2-5 the state for attendance on the officer who, because of physical
2-6 infirmities, is required to have a personal attendant;[.]
2-7 (6) an appointment or employment of a substitute
2-8 teacher by a school district; or
2-9 (7) an appointment or employment of a person by a
2-10 school district that has an enrollment of less than 600 students.
2-11 SECTION 2. Section 573.061, Government Code, as amended by
2-12 this Act, applies to the appointment or employment of a person by a
2-13 school district only if the person is appointed or employed on or
2-14 after the effective date of this Act. The appointment or employment
2-15 of a person by a school district who was appointed or employed
2-16 before that date is governed by the law in effect at the time the
2-17 person was appointed or employed, and the former law is continued
2-18 in effect for that purpose.
2-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-25 passage, and it is so enacted.