By:  Shapleigh                                        S.B. No. 1695
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the election of trustees in certain school districts.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Sec. 11.0531 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 11.0531.  SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS IN CERTAIN SCHOOL
 1-7     DISTRICTS.  (a)  This section applies to a school district with an
 1-8     average daily attendance of more than 40,000 and less than 60,000
 1-9     that elects trustees from single-member trustee districts and is
1-10     located wholly within a county with a population of more than
1-11     550,000 that shares a border with a foreign country.
1-12           (b)  A district to which this section applies shall elect
1-13     five trustees from single-member trustee districts and two trustees
1-14     at large.
1-15           (c)  The board shall divide the school district into five
1-16     trustee districts and shall number each trustee district.  The
1-17     trustee districts must be compact and contiguous and must be as
1-18     nearly as practicable of equal population.  Trustee districts must
1-19     be drawn not later than the 90th day before the date trustees are
1-20     elected from the new single-member districts.
1-21           (d)  Residents of each trustee district are entitled to elect
1-22     one trustee to the board.  A trustee elected to represent a trustee
1-23     district at the first election of trustees under this section must
 2-1     be a resident of the district the trustee represents not later
 2-2     than:  (1)  the 90th day after the date election returns are
 2-3     canvassed; or (2)  the 60th day after the date of a final judgment
 2-4     in an election contest filed concerning that trustee district.
 2-5     After the first election of trustees under this section, a
 2-6     candidate for trustee representing a single-member trustee district
 2-7     must be a resident of the district the candidate seeks to
 2-8     represent.  A person appointed to fill a vacancy in a trustee
 2-9     district must be a resident of that trustee district.  A trustee
2-10     vacates the office if the trustee fails to move into the trustee
2-11     district the trustee represents within the time provided by this
2-12     subsection or ceases to reside in the district the trustee
2-13     represents.
2-14           (e)  An at large candidate must be a resident of the
2-15     district.  An at large trustee vacates the office if the trustee
2-16     ceases to reside in the district.
2-17           (f)  At the first election at which trustees are elected
2-18     under this section, all positions on the board shall be filled.
2-19     The trustees then elected shall draw lots of staggered terms as
2-20     provided by Section 11.059.
2-21           (g)  This section expires January 1, 2005.
2-22           SECTION 2.  The board of trustees of a district to which this
2-23     Act applies shall first draw single-member districts under this Act
2-24     not later than the 90th day before the date for election of
2-25     trustees in the district in 2002.
2-26           SECTION 3.  This Act take effect immediately if it receives a
 3-1     vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
 3-2     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
 3-3     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
 3-4     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.