By: VanDeaver (Senate Sponsor - Hughes) H.B. No. 4276
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2017;
  May 11, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Administration; May 23, 2017, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 23, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the Paris Junior College District.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 130.0829 to read as follows:
         Sec. 130.0829.  GOVERNING BOARD OF PARIS JUNIOR COLLEGE
  DISTRICT. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this
  subchapter, the governing board of the Paris Junior College
  District may provide by resolution or order of the board for the
  election of nine board members as follows:
               (1)  eight members elected from respective
  commissioner precincts and evenly allocated among those precincts;
  and
               (2)  one member elected at large.
         (b)  A resolution or order of the governing board under
  Subsection (a) must establish transition terms of office to conform
  to elections held in even-numbered years and staggered six-year
  terms.
         (c)  Notwithstanding Section 41.0052, Election Code, the
  governing board of the Paris Junior College District by resolution
  or order of the board may change the date on which the district
  holds its general election for board members to the November
  uniform election date.  The governing board shall adjust the terms
  of office to conform to a change made to the election date under
  this subsection. 
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
 
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