1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the election of members of the board of trustees of
1-3 certain independent school districts.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 3, Chapter 339, Acts of the 52nd
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1951 (Article 2774b, Vernon's Texas
1-7 Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as
1-8 follows:
1-9 (d) The district may count write-in votes and require the
1-10 declaration of write-in candidates in the manner provided by
1-11 Section 11.056, Education Code.
1-12 SECTION 2. Section 4, Chapter 339, Acts of the 52nd
1-13 Legislature, Regular Session, 1951 (Article 2774b, Vernon's Texas
1-14 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-15 Sec. 4. (a) Any person desiring election for a position on
1-16 any such Board of Trustees shall, not less than thirty (30) days
1-17 prior to the date of said election, file with the Board of Trustees
1-18 ordering such election written notice announcing his or her
1-19 candidacy, designating in such written notice and request to have
1-20 his or her name placed on the official ballot the number of the
1-21 position on such Board of Trustees for which he or she, as the case
1-22 may be, desires to become a candidate, and all candidates so
1-23 requesting shall have their names printed on the official ballot
1-24 beneath the number of the position so designated. A [No] person
2-1 who does not so file said notice and request, accompanied by a
2-2 filing fee or petition as provided by Subsections (b) and (c) of
2-3 this section, within the time aforesaid is not [shall be] entitled
2-4 to have his or her name printed upon said official ballot to be
2-5 used at any such election. No candidate shall be eligible to have
2-6 his or her name placed on the official ballot under more than one
2-7 (1) position to be filled at any such election.
2-8 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c) of this section,
2-9 the notice under Subsection (a) of this section must be accompanied
2-10 by a filing fee of $300. The fee may be paid only in cash or a
2-11 cashier's check, certified check, or money order made payable to
2-12 the district.
2-13 (c) Instead of the fee under Subsection (b) of this section,
2-14 a candidate may submit a petition signed by a number of registered
2-15 voters equal to at least one-half of one percent of the total
2-16 number of votes cast in the district in the most recent
2-17 gubernatorial election.
2-18 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-19 SECTION 4. 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.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3204 was passed by the House on May
11, 1999, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 3204 on May 26, 1999, by a non-record
vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3204 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 21, 1999, by a viva-voce vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor