1-1     By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 111
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed December 21, 1998; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
 1-4     February 25, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
 1-5     7, Nays 0; February 25, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to an optional majority vote requirement for election of
 1-9     trustees in certain independent school districts.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 11.057, Education Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 11.057.  DETERMINATION OF RESULTS; OPTIONAL MAJORITY
1-14     VOTE REQUIREMENT.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), in
1-15     [In] an independent school district in which the positions of
1-16     trustees are designated by number as provided by Section 11.058 or
1-17     in which the trustees are elected from single-member trustee
1-18     districts as provided by Section 11.052, the candidate receiving
1-19     the highest number of votes for each respective position voted on
1-20     is elected [entitled to serve as trustee].
1-21           (b)  In a district in which the positions of trustees are not
1-22     designated by number or in which the trustees are not elected from
1-23     single-member trustee districts, the candidates receiving the
1-24     highest number of votes shall fill the positions the terms of which
1-25     are normally expiring.
1-26           (c)  The board of trustees of an independent school district
1-27     in which the positions of trustees are designated by number or in
1-28     which the trustees are elected from single-member trustee districts
1-29     as provided by Section 11.052 may provide by resolution, not later
1-30     than the 180th day before the date of an election, that a candidate
1-31     must receive a majority of the votes cast for a position or in a
1-32     trustee district, as applicable, to be elected. A resolution
1-33     adopted under this subsection is effective until rescinded by a
1-34     subsequent resolution adopted not later than the 180th day before
1-35     the date of the first election to which the rescission applies.
1-36           SECTION 2.  Section 11.057, Education Code, as amended by
1-37     this Act, does not require a school district to elect trustees in a
1-38     manner other than the manner the district was using to elect
1-39     trustees on June 1, 1999.
1-40           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-41           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-42     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-43     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-44     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-45     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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