2003S0373-2 03/03/03


By:  Madla                                                        S.B. No. 1493


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to school district trustee training.                                 
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 11.159, Education Code, is amended by 
adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
	(c)  The regional education service centers shall report to 
the agency and publish annually a list of independent school 
district trustees who have not completed the training required by 
the State Board of Education.  The list must be published in a 
periodical or newspaper of general circulation in the community of 
each listed trustee during the anniversary week of the trustee 
election in the school district of the trustee.  For each trustee 
named, the list must indicate the number of hours of training 
required to be completed and the number of hours of training 
completed.  The State Board of Education shall adopt rules 
necessary to implement this subsection.
	SECTION 2.  The State Board of Education and the Texas 
Education Agency shall conduct a review of the educational training 
requirements for independent school district trustees, including 
the content of the training and the number of required hours of 
training.  The State Board of Education and the Texas Education 
Agency shall report their findings to the legislature not later 
than January 1, 2005.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.