1-1 By: Ehrhardt (Senate Sponsor - West) H.B. No. 2459
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 30, 2001;
1-3 April 30, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; May 8, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 8, 2001, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the composition of the governing board of certain
1-9 community college districts.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 130.040, Education Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 130.040. BOARD OF TRUSTEES: UNION, COUNTY, OR
1-14 JOINT-COUNTY JUNIOR COLLEGE. A union junior college, a county
1-15 junior college, or a joint-county junior college shall be governed,
1-16 administered, and controlled by and under the direction of a board
1-17 of trustees of seven members unless the number of members is
1-18 increased as authorized by Section 130.082(d).
1-19 SECTION 2. Sections 130.0821(b), (c), and (e), Education
1-20 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-21 (b) The board of trustees shall divide the district into the
1-22 appropriate number of [seven] compact trustee districts which
1-23 contain as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants
1-24 according to the last preceding federal census. Residents of each
1-25 trustee district shall be entitled to elect one member of the
1-26 board, and each candidate seeking to represent a trustee district
1-27 must reside in the trustee district he seeks to represent.
1-28 Trustees shall, during their term of office, reside within the
1-29 trustee district from which they were elected.
1-30 (c) Members of the board of trustees of the district shall
1-31 serve for staggered terms of six years with the terms of one-third
1-32 of the [two or three] members, as nearly as may be, expiring in
1-33 each even-numbered year [years].
1-34 (e) Within 90 days following the publication of census tract
1-35 data compiled during each subsequent decennial federal census, the
1-36 board of trustees shall redivide the district into the appropriate
1-37 number of [seven] trustee districts if such census data indicates
1-38 that the population of the most populous trustee district exceeds
1-39 the population of the least populous district by more than 10
1-40 percent. Within 90 days following the effective date of an order
1-41 or resolution of the board of trustees to increase the number of
1-42 board members, the board of trustees shall redivide the district
1-43 into the appropriate number of trustee districts as increased. At
1-44 the next district election following the redivision of the district
1-45 under this subsection, each trustee district shall elect a member
1-46 of the board, and the members elected shall draw lots for the
1-47 appropriate number of [two] two-year [terms], [two] four-year
1-48 [terms], and [three] six-year terms as needed to establish
1-49 staggered terms as required by Subsection (c).
1-50 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-51 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-52 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
1-53 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-54 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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