By: Madden, Macias, Hilderbran H.B. No. 606
    (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro)
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2007;
  May 7, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Education; May 10, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 10, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to certain election procedures for common school district
  board elections.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter G, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 11.304 to read as follows:
         Sec. 11.304.  WRITE-IN VOTING: COMMON SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD
  ELECTION. The procedures for write-in voting prescribed for an
  election for trustees of an independent school district under
  Section 11.056 apply to an election for trustees of a common school
  district operating under former Chapter 22 as that chapter existed
  on May 1, 1995.
         SECTION 2.  Section 11.304, Education Code, as added by this
  Act, applies only to the conduct of an election for trustees of a
  common school district that is ordered on or after the effective
  date of this Act.  The conduct of an election for trustees of a
  common school district that is ordered before the effective date of
  this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the election
  was ordered, and the former law is continued in effect for that
  purpose.
         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, 2007.
 
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