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78R2182 SLO-D

By:  Gutierrez                                                    H.B. No. 699



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the election of school district trustees from 
single-member districts.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 11.052(a), Education Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
	(a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), the board of 
trustees of an independent school district, on its own motion, may 
order that trustees of the district are to be elected from 
single-member trustee districts or that not fewer than 50 [70] 
percent of the members of the board of trustees are to be elected 
from single-member trustee districts with the remaining trustees to 
be elected from the district at large.
	SECTION 2.  The board of trustees of a school district that 
before the effective date of this Act elected at least 70 percent of 
its trustees from single-member districts may adopt a redistricting 
plan that complies with Section 11.052(a), Education Code, as 
amended by this Act.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.