1-1 By: Danburg (Senate Sponsor - Ellis) H.B. No. 3204
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999;
1-3 May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the election of members of the board of trustees of
1-9 certain independent school districts.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 3, Chapter 339, Acts of the 52nd
1-12 Legislature, Regular Session, 1951 (Article 2774b, Vernon's Texas
1-13 Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as
1-14 follows:
1-15 (d) The district may count write-in votes and require the
1-16 declaration of write-in candidates in the manner provided by
1-17 Section 11.056, Education Code.
1-18 SECTION 2. Section 4, Chapter 339, Acts of the 52nd
1-19 Legislature, Regular Session, 1951 (Article 2774b, Vernon's Texas
1-20 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-21 Sec. 4. (a) Any person desiring election for a position on
1-22 any such Board of Trustees shall, not less than thirty (30) days
1-23 prior to the date of said election, file with the Board of Trustees
1-24 ordering such election written notice announcing his or her
1-25 candidacy, designating in such written notice and request to have
1-26 his or her name placed on the official ballot the number of the
1-27 position on such Board of Trustees for which he or she, as the case
1-28 may be, desires to become a candidate, and all candidates so
1-29 requesting shall have their names printed on the official ballot
1-30 beneath the number of the position so designated. A [No] person
1-31 who does not so file said notice and request, accompanied by a
1-32 filing fee or petition as provided by Subsections (b) and (c) of
1-33 this section, within the time aforesaid is not [shall be] entitled
1-34 to have his or her name printed upon said official ballot to be
1-35 used at any such election. No candidate shall be eligible to have
1-36 his or her name placed on the official ballot under more than one
1-37 (1) position to be filled at any such election.
1-38 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c) of this section,
1-39 the notice under Subsection (a) of this section must be accompanied
1-40 by a filing fee for the greater of $500 or the filing fee for a
1-41 candidate for state representative under Section 172.024, Election
1-42 Code. The fee may be paid only in cash or a cashier's check,
1-43 certified check, or money order made payable to the district.
1-44 (c) Instead of the fee under Subsection (b) of this section,
1-45 a candidate may submit a petition signed by a number of registered
1-46 voters equal to at least one-half of one percent of the total
1-47 number of votes cast in the district in the most recent
1-48 gubernatorial election.
1-49 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-50 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-51 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-52 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-53 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-54 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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