1-1     By:  Gallegos                                         S.B. No. 1180
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2001; March 8, 2001, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 9, 2001,
 1-4     reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0;
 1-5     April 9, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the filing deadline for candidacy for the governing
 1-9     body of certain school districts.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 4, Chapter 339, Acts of
1-12     the 52nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1951 (Article 2774b,
1-13     Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-14           (a)  Any person desiring election for a position on any such
1-15     Board of Trustees shall, by the deadline prescribed by Section
1-16     11.055, Education Code [not less than thirty (30) days prior to the
1-17     date of said election], file with the Board of Trustees ordering
1-18     such election written notice announcing his or her candidacy,
1-19     designating in such written notice and request to have his or her
1-20     name placed on the official ballot the number of the position on
1-21     such Board of Trustees for which he or she, as the case may be,
1-22     desires to become a candidate, and all candidates so requesting
1-23     shall have their names printed on the official ballot beneath the
1-24     number of the position so designated.  A person who does not so
1-25     file said notice and request, accompanied by a filing fee or
1-26     petition as provided by Subsections (b) and (c) of this section,
1-27     within the time aforesaid is not entitled to have his or her name
1-28     printed upon said official ballot to be used at any such election.
1-29     No candidate shall be eligible to have his or her name placed on
1-30     the official ballot under more than one (1) position to be filled
1-31     at any such election.
1-32           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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