By Van de Putte S.B. No. 972
77R3716 JSA-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the effect of redistricting by a junior college
1-3 district on the terms of the current members of the district's
1-4 board of trustees.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 130.0821(e), Education Code, is amended
1-7 to read as follows:
1-8 (e) Not later than the 90th day after the earliest date on
1-9 which the board of trustees may recognize and act on the
1-10 publication of the federal decennial census under Section 2058.001,
1-11 Government Code [Within 90 days following the publication of census
1-12 tract data compiled during each subsequent decennial federal
1-13 census], the board of trustees shall redivide the district into
1-14 seven trustee districts if the [such] census data indicates that
1-15 the population of the most populous trustee district exceeds the
1-16 population of the least populous district by more than 10 percent.
1-17 At the next district election following the redistricting
1-18 [redivision] of the district, each trustee district shall elect a
1-19 member of the board unless the board of trustees determines that
1-20 trustees shall be elected from the new trustee districts as
1-21 provided by Section 130.0826, and the members elected shall draw
1-22 lots for two two-year terms, two four-year terms, and three
1-23 six-year terms.
1-24 SECTION 2. Section 130.0822(j), Education Code, is amended
2-1 to read as follows:
2-2 (j) After each redistricting, all positions on the board
2-3 shall be filled unless the board of trustees determines that
2-4 trustees shall be elected from the new trustee districts as
2-5 provided by Section 130.0826. The trustees then elected shall draw
2-6 lots for staggered terms as provided by Section 130.082 [of this
2-7 code].
2-8 SECTION 3. Subchapter E, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
2-9 amended by adding Section 130.0826 to read as follows:
2-10 Sec. 130.0826. OPTION TO CONTINUE IN OFFICE FOLLOWING
2-11 REDISTRICTING. (a) The board of trustees of any junior college
2-12 district that elects some or all of its members from single-member
2-13 districts and in which the trustees serve staggered terms may
2-14 provide for the trustees in office at the first election after the
2-15 junior college district is redistricted to serve for the remainder
2-16 of their terms in accordance with this section.
2-17 (b) If the board of trustees provides for the trustees in
2-18 office to serve for the remainder of their terms in accordance with
2-19 this section, the trustee districts established by the
2-20 redistricting plan shall be filled as the staggered terms of
2-21 trustees in office expire. When the board of trustees adopts a
2-22 redistricting plan, the board shall determine from which new
2-23 trustee district the position of each trustee in office will be
2-24 filled as it becomes vacant.
2-25 (c) This section does not authorize a trustee of a junior
2-26 college district to continue in office after a redistricting plan
2-27 takes effect if the member no longer resides in the district from
3-1 which the trustee was elected.
3-2 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
3-3 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
3-4 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
3-5 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
3-6 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.