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 2-3     adopted under this subsection is effective until rescinded by a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