AN ACT
1-1 relating to an optional majority vote requirement for election of
1-2 trustees in certain independent school districts.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 11.057, Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 11.057. DETERMINATION OF RESULTS; OPTIONAL MAJORITY
1-7 VOTE REQUIREMENT. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), in
1-8 [In] an independent school district in which the positions of
1-9 trustees are designated by number as provided by Section 11.058 or
1-10 in which the trustees are elected from single-member trustee
1-11 districts as provided by Section 11.052, the candidate receiving
1-12 the highest number of votes for each respective position voted on
1-13 is elected [entitled to serve as trustee].
1-14 (b) In a district in which the positions of trustees are not
1-15 designated by number or in which the trustees are not elected from
1-16 single-member trustee districts, the candidates receiving the
1-17 highest number of votes shall fill the positions the terms of which
1-18 are normally expiring.
1-19 (c) The board of trustees of an independent school district
1-20 in which the positions of trustees are designated by number or in
1-21 which the trustees are elected from single-member trustee districts
1-22 as provided by Section 11.052 may provide by resolution, not later
1-23 than the 180th day before the date of an election, that a candidate
1-24 must receive a majority of the votes cast for a position or in a
2-1 trustee district, as applicable, to be elected. A resolution
2-2 adopted under this subsection is effective until rescinded by a
2-3 subsequent resolution adopted not later than the 180th day before
2-4 the date of the first election to which the rescission applies.
2-5 SECTION 2. Section 11.057, Education Code, as amended by
2-6 this Act, does not require a school district to elect trustees in a
2-7 manner other than the manner the district was using to elect
2-8 trustees on June 1, 1999.
2-9 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-10 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 111 passed the Senate on
March 2, 1999, by a viva-voce vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 111 passed the House on
May 19, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor