By: Rodriguez of Bexar (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) H.B. No. 961
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2017;
  May 10, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher
  Education; May 15, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable
  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0;
  May 15, 2017, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 961 By:  West
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the election of junior college district trustees.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 130.082, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsections (d-1) and (g-1) to read as follows:
         (d-1)  Except as provided by Subsection (d) or Section
  130.0827, each position on the board of trustees shall be filled by
  election in accordance with this section.
         (g-1)  The board by resolution may provide, not later than
  the 180th day before the date of an election, that a candidate must
  receive a plurality of the votes cast for a position to be filled at
  the election under Subsection (g). A resolution adopted under this
  subsection is effective for subsequent elections until rescinded by
  a subsequent resolution adopted not later than the 180th day before
  the date of the first election to which the rescission applies.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
 
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