By: Blanco, Campbell  S.B. No. 1581
         (In the Senate - Filed February 24, 2025; March 10, 2025,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Education K-16;
  May 7, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11,
  Nays 0; May 7, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the eligibility of a trustee of certain school
  districts for employment by those districts.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 11.063, Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 11.063.  ELIGIBILITY FOR EMPLOYMENT. (a) Except as
  provided by Subsection (b), a [A] trustee of an independent school
  district may not accept employment with that school district until
  the first anniversary of the date the trustee's membership on the
  board ends.
         (b)  Subsection (a) does not apply to the trustee of a school
  district that is entitled to an allotment under Section 48.101(b).
         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, 2025.
 
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