By Davis of Dallas H.B. No. 1992 76R6990 ESH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to removal from office of the commissioner of education. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 7.053, Education Code, is amended to read 1-5 as follows: 1-6 Sec. 7.053. REMOVAL FROM OFFICE. (a) The governor, with 1-7 the advice and consent of the senate, may remove the commissioner 1-8 from office as provided by Section 9, Article XV, Texas 1-9 Constitution. 1-10 (b) If a school district repeatedly fails to satisfy the 1-11 accreditation standards prescribed by Subchapter D, Chapter 39, and 1-12 the commissioner fails to impose an appropriate sanction under 1-13 Section 39.131, the commissioner forfeits the office and may be 1-14 removed through an action in the nature of quo warranto as provided 1-15 by Chapter 66, Civil Practice and Remedies Code. The attorney 1-16 general may on the attorney general's own motion and shall on 1-17 receipt of a petition complying with Subsections (c) and (d) file a 1-18 petition for leave to file an information under that chapter. 1-19 Venue for an action under this subsection is in Travis County. 1-20 (c) A petition for the removal of the commissioner must be 1-21 signed by at least the following percentage of the registered 1-22 voters of the school district: 1-23 (1) 25 percent, if the district has an enrollment of 1-24 500 students or less; 2-1 (2) 20 percent, if the district has an enrollment of 2-2 501 to 2,000 students; 2-3 (3) 15 percent, if the district has an enrollment of 2-4 2,001 to 10,000 students; 2-5 (4) 10 percent, if the district has an enrollment of 2-6 10,001 to 50,000 students; or 2-7 (5) five percent, if the district has an enrollment of 2-8 50,001 students or more. 2-9 (d) The petition must show the name, address, and telephone 2-10 number of each person signing the petition and must include the 2-11 date on which the person signed the petition. A petition signature 2-12 is invalid if the signer signed the petition earlier than the 90th 2-13 day before the date the petition is delivered to the attorney 2-14 general. 2-15 SECTION 2. 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, 2-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-21 passage, and it is so enacted.