86R11240 SRS-D
 
  By: Fallon S.B. No. 1048
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to an independent school district holding elections on the
  November uniform election date.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 11.0581(a), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a)  An election for trustees of an independent school
  district shall be held on the November uniform election date [the
  same date as:
               [(1)     the election for the members of the governing
  body of a municipality located in the school district;
               [(2)     the general election for state and county
  officers;
               [(3)     the election for the members of the governing
  body of a hospital district, if the school district:
                     [(A)     is wholly or partly located in a county with
  a population of less than 40,000 that is adjacent to a county with a
  population of more than three million; and
                     [(B)     held its election for trustees jointly with
  the election for the members of the governing body of the hospital
  district before May 2007; or
               [(4)     the election for the members of the governing
  board of a public junior college district in which the school
  district is wholly or partly located].
         SECTION 2.  Section 41.012, Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 41.012.  DATE OF ELECTIONS. An election under this
  chapter for voter approval of an agreement entered by the board of
  trustees shall be held on the November uniform election date [a
  Tuesday or Saturday not more than 45 days after the date of the
  agreement. Section 41.001, Election Code, does not apply to the
  election].
         SECTION 3.  Section 41.253(b), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (b)  The transitional board of trustees shall divide the
  consolidated district into nine single-member trustee districts in
  accordance with the procedures provided by Section 11.052.  The
  transitional board shall order an election for the initial board of
  trustees to be held on the first November [May] uniform election
  date after the effective date of a consolidation order.
         SECTION 4.  Subchapter A, Chapter 41, Election Code, is
  amended by adding Section 41.0051 to read as follows:
         Sec. 41.0051.  INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT ELECTION TO ISSUE
  BONDS. Notwithstanding any other law, an election for the issuance
  of bonds by an independent school district shall be held on the
  November uniform election date.
         SECTION 5.  Section 41.0052, Election Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (a-3) to read as follows:
         (a-3)  The governing body of an independent school district
  that holds its general election for officers on a date other than
  the November uniform election date shall, not later than December
  31, 2019, change the date on which it holds its general election for
  officers to the November uniform election date. This subsection
  expires January 1, 2020.
         SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.