By:  Zaffirini                                         S.B. No. 403
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to trustees of military reservation school districts.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 11.352, Education Code,
 1-5     is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (b)  For each military reservation school district, the State
 1-7     Board of Education may appoint a board of three or five trustees.
 1-8     Enlisted military personnel and military officers may be appointed
 1-9     to the school board.  Military retirees and parents whose children
1-10     are enrolled in the primary or secondary school on the military
1-11     reservation may be appointed to the school board.  A majority of
1-12     the trustees appointed for the district must be civilians and all
1-13     may be civilians.  The trustees shall be selected from a list of
1-14     persons who are qualified to serve as members of a school district
1-15     board of trustees under Section 11.061 and who live or are employed
1-16     on the military reservation.  The list shall be furnished to the
1-17     board by the commanding officer of the military reservation.  The
1-18     trustees appointed serve terms of two years.
1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-20     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-21     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-22     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-23     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.