By Danburg H.B. No. 3204
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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, Special Laws, Acts of the
1-6 52nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1951 (Article 2774b, Vernon's
1-7 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read
1-8 as 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, or other General Laws applicable to
1-12 independent school districts.
1-13 SECTION 2. Section 4, Chapter 339, Special Laws, Acts of the
1-14 52nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1951 (Article 2774b, Vernon's
1-15 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-16 Sec. 4. (a) Any person desiring election for a position on
1-17 any such Board of Trustees shall, not less than thirty (30) days
1-18 prior to the date of said election, file with the Board of Trustees
1-19 ordering such election written notice announcing his or her
1-20 candidacy, designating in such written notice and request to have
1-21 his or her name placed on the official ballot the number of the
2-1 position on such Board of Trustees for which he or she, as the case
2-2 may be, desires to become a candidate, and all candidates so
2-3 requesting shall have their names printed on the official ballot
2-4 beneath the number of the position so designated. No person who
2-5 does not file said notice, [and] request and filing fee or
2-6 petition, as provided in Subsections (b) and (c) of this Section,
2-7 within the time aforesaid shall be entitled to have his or her name
2-8 printed upon said official ballot to be used at any such election.
2-9 No candidate shall be eligible to have his or her name placed on
2-10 the official ballot under more than one (1) position to be filled
2-11 at any such election.
2-12 (b) Except as provided in Subsection (c), the written notice
2-13 must be accompanied by a filing fee and must be in the form of cash
2-14 or a cashier's check or a certified check or a money order made
2-15 payable to the district in the amount of the greater of $500 or the
2-16 filing fee for a candidate for election to the House of
2-17 Representatives.
2-18 (c) A candidate may submit with the written notice a
2-19 petition signed by qualified voters of at least one-half of one
2-20 percent of the total number of votes cast in the most recent
2-21 gubernatorial election in the district.
2-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.