By Madden H.B. No. 477
76R1590 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the vote required for election of the governing board
1-3 of certain junior college districts.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 130.082(g), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (g) The board shall designate a number for the position held
1-8 by each member of the board, from one upward in consecutive
1-9 numerical order in such manner that the lowest numbers shall be
1-10 assigned to the members whose terms of office expire in the
1-11 shortest length of time, provided that any such position number
1-12 designations on existing boards under existing law at the effective
1-13 date of this act shall remain in effect. At each election
1-14 candidates shall be voted upon and be elected separately for each
1-15 position on the board, and the name of each candidate shall be
1-16 placed on the official ballot according to the number of the
1-17 position for which he or she is running. A candidate receiving [a
1-18 majority of] the most votes cast [for all candidates] for a
1-19 position shall be declared elected. [If no candidate receives such
1-20 a majority, then the two candidates receiving the highest number of
1-21 votes shall run against each other for the position. The run-off
1-22 election for all positions shall be held on a date that complies
1-23 with law and shall be ordered, notice thereof given, and held, as
1-24 provided herein for regular elections.] Any resident, qualified
2-1 elector of the district may have his or her name placed as a
2-2 candidate on the official ballot for any position to be filled at
2-3 each regular election by filing with the secretary of the board a
2-4 written application therefor signed by the applicant, not later
2-5 than 5 p.m. of the 45th day before the date of the election. An
2-6 application may not be filed earlier than the 30th day before the
2-7 date of the filing deadline. Such application must state the
2-8 number of the position for which he or she is a candidate, or the
2-9 name of the incumbent member of the board holding the position for
2-10 which he or she desires to run. The location on the ballot of the
2-11 names of candidates for each position shall be chosen by lot by the
2-12 board. A candidate shall be eligible to run for only one position
2-13 at each election.
2-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.