By Jones of Dallas H.B. No. 1226
76R4522 BDH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the organization and selection of officers of school
1-3 district boards of trustees.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 11.061, Education Code, is amended by
1-6 amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (c) Except as provided by Subsection (e) and Section 11.062,
1-9 [at the first meeting after each election and qualification of
1-10 trustees,] the members shall, not more frequently than annually,
1-11 organize by selecting:
1-12 (1) a president, who must be a member of the board;
1-13 (2) a secretary, who may or may not be a member of the
1-14 board; and
1-15 (3) other officers and committees the board considers
1-16 necessary.
1-17 (e) Trustees may at any time select a trustee to serve as an
1-18 officer if that office becomes vacant. Trustees may also at any
1-19 time select any committees the trustees consider necessary.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21 SECTION 3. Section 11.061(c), Education Code, as amended by
1-22 this Act, does not prohibit a board of trustees from organizing and
1-23 electing new officers on or after the effective date of this Act,
1-24 regardless of the date on which the trustees previously selected
2-1 officers. On the first date on or after the effective date of this
2-2 Act that trustees select officers, the trustees become subject to
2-3 Section 11.061(c), Education Code, as amended by this Act, and may
2-4 not select new officers until one year has elapsed, except as
2-5 provided by Section 11.061(e), Education Code, as amended by this
2-6 Act.
2-7 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.