Bill Text: TX HB1789 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the application of nepotism prohibitions to a person appointed or employed by a school district as a bus driver.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-02 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1789 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1789-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the application of nepotism prohibitions to a person appointed or employed by a school district as a bus driver.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-02 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1789 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1789-Comm_Sub.html
By: Buckley, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Flores) | H.B. No. 1789 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 2023; | ||
May 2, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Education; May 12, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 12, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the application of nepotism prohibitions to a person | ||
appointed or employed by a school district as a bus driver. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 573.061, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 573.061. GENERAL EXCEPTIONS. Section 573.041 does not | ||
apply to: | ||
(1) an appointment to the office of a notary public or | ||
to the confirmation of that appointment; | ||
(2) an appointment of a page, secretary, attendant, or | ||
other employee by the legislature for attendance on any member of | ||
the legislature who, because of physical infirmities, is required | ||
to have a personal attendant; | ||
(3) a confirmation of the appointment of an appointee | ||
appointed to a first term on a date when no individual related to | ||
the appointee within a degree described by Section 573.002 was a | ||
member of or a candidate for the legislature, or confirmation on | ||
reappointment of the appointee to any subsequent consecutive term; | ||
(4) an appointment or employment of a bus driver by a | ||
school district if: | ||
(A) the district is located wholly in a county | ||
with a population of less than 35,000; [ |
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(B) the district is located in more than one | ||
county and the county in which the largest part of the district is | ||
located has a population of less than 35,000; or | ||
(C) the board of trustees of the district | ||
approves the appointment or employment; | ||
(5) an appointment or employment of a personal | ||
attendant by an officer of the state or a political subdivision of | ||
the state for attendance on the officer who, because of physical | ||
infirmities, is required to have a personal attendant; | ||
(6) an appointment or employment of a substitute | ||
teacher by a school district; | ||
(7) an appointment or employment of a person by a | ||
municipality that has a population of less than 200; or | ||
(8) an appointment of an election clerk under Section | ||
32.031, Election Code, who is not related in the first degree by | ||
consanguinity or affinity to an elected official of the authority | ||
that appoints the election judges for that election. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to the appointment or employment of a person by a school district on | ||
or after the effective date of this Act. A person who is appointed | ||
or employed by a school district before the effective date of this | ||
Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the person was | ||
appointed or employed, and the former law is continued in effect for | ||
that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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