By:  Wentworth                                                    S.B. No. 144


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to trustees of military reservation school districts.                
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 11.352, Education Code, 
is amended to read as follows:
	(b)  For each military reservation school district, the 
State Board of Education may appoint a board of three or five 
trustees.  Enlisted military personnel and military officers may be 
appointed to the school board.  A majority of the trustees appointed 
for the district must be civilians and all may be civilians.  The 
trustees shall be selected from a list of persons who are qualified 
to serve as members of a school district board of trustees under 
Section 11.061 and who live or are employed on the military 
reservation.  The list shall be furnished to the board by the 
commanding officer of the military reservation.  The trustees 
appointed serve terms of two years.
	SECTION 2.  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, 2005.