Bill Text: TX HB1612 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the composition of districts for the election of members of the State Board of Education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-09 - Referred to Redistricting [HB1612 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1612-Introduced.html
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| By: Davis | H.B. No. 1612 | |
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| relating to the composition of districts for the election of | ||
| members of the State Board of Education. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to fulfill the | ||
| legislature's duty to redraw the districts for the election of the | ||
| members of the State Board of Education in compliance with the | ||
| United States and Texas Constitutions and applicable federal law | ||
| following the publication of the 2020 federal decennial census. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) The districts from which the members of the | ||
| State Board of Education are elected are the districts as provided | ||
| by law and used for the election of the members of the State Board of | ||
| Education at the 2018 and 2020 general elections except as those | ||
| districts are changed by Section 3 of this Act. | ||
| (b) One member is elected from each district established by | ||
| this Act. | ||
| (c) For purposes of Section 7.104, Education Code, this Act | ||
| constitutes a decennial reapportionment. | ||
| SECTION 3. (a) Glasscock County is transferred from State | ||
| Board of Education District 1 to State Board of Education District | ||
| 15. | ||
| (b) Bexar County Precinct 4153 is transferred from State | ||
| Board of Education District 5 to State Board of Education District | ||
| 3. | ||
| (c) Caldwell County is transferred from State Board of | ||
| Education District 5 to State Board of Education District 10. | ||
| (d) San Augustine County is transferred from State Board of | ||
| Education District 7 to State Board of Education District 9. | ||
| SECTION 4. In this Act, "tract," "block group," and "block" | ||
| mean the geographic areas identified by those terms on the 2010 | ||
| Census TIGER/Line Shapefiles, prepared by the federal Bureau of the | ||
| Census for the Twenty-third Decennial Census of the United States, | ||
| enumerated as of April 1, 2010. | ||
| SECTION 5. It is the intent of the legislature that if any | ||
| county, tract, block group, block, or other geographic area has | ||
| erroneously been left out of this Act, a court reviewing this Act | ||
| should include that area in the appropriate district in accordance | ||
| with the intent of the legislature, using any available evidence of | ||
| that intent, including evidence such as that used by the Supreme | ||
| Court of Texas in Smith v. Patterson, 111 Tex. 535, 242 S.W. 749 | ||
| (1922). | ||
| SECTION 6. (a) This Act supersedes all previous enactments | ||
| or orders adopting districts for the State Board of Education. All | ||
| previous acts of the legislature adopting districts for the State | ||
| Board of Education are repealed. | ||
| (b) Chapter 72 (H.B. 600), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, | ||
| Regular Session, 2011, is repealed. | ||
| SECTION 7. The districts established in this Act apply to | ||
| the election of the members of the State Board of Education | ||
| beginning with the primary and general elections in 2022 for | ||
| members of the board in 2023. This Act does not affect the | ||
| membership or districts of the board before January 1, 2023. | ||
| SECTION 8. 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, 2021. | ||
