76R11944 DRH-F                           
         By Danburg                                            H.B. No. 3204
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3204:
         By Hochberg                                       C.S.H.B. No. 3204
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 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 for the greater of $500 or the filing fee for a
2-11     candidate for state representative under Section 172.024, Election
2-12     Code.  The fee may be paid only in cash or a cashier's check,
2-13     certified check, or money order made payable to the district.
2-14           (c)  Instead of the fee under Subsection (b) of this section,
2-15     a candidate may submit a petition signed by a number of registered
2-16     voters equal to at least one-half of one percent of the total
2-17     number of votes cast in the district in the most recent
2-18     gubernatorial election.
2-19           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-20           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.