Bill Text: TX HB3466 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to procedures for requiring an independent school district to conduct an efficiency audit.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-18 - Referred to Public Education [HB3466 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3466-Introduced.html
| 86R7680 SRS-D | ||
| By: Sanford | H.B. No. 3466 | |
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| relating to procedures for requiring an independent school district | ||
| to conduct an efficiency audit. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 11.184 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 11.184. EFFICIENCY AUDIT. (a) For purposes of this | ||
| section, "efficiency audit" means an investigation of the | ||
| operations of an independent school district to examine fiscal | ||
| management and efficiency. | ||
| (b) The board of trustees of an independent school district | ||
| shall conduct an efficiency audit if: | ||
| (1) a petition requesting the board to conduct an | ||
| efficiency audit for the district is: | ||
| (A) signed not more than 90 days before the date | ||
| of submission by at least 10 percent of the voters who voted in the | ||
| most recent election of the board of trustees of the school | ||
| district; and | ||
| (B) submitted to and verified by the board of | ||
| trustees of the school district; and | ||
| (2) a majority of the voters voting in the election | ||
| under Subsection (c) approve the conducting of the efficiency | ||
| audit. | ||
| (c) If the board of trustees of an independent school | ||
| district determines the petition satisfies the requirements of | ||
| Subsection (b)(1)(A) and determines not to conduct an efficiency | ||
| audit, the board of trustees shall order an election to be held in | ||
| the district on the first uniform election date that allows | ||
| sufficient time to comply with other requirements of law. | ||
| (d) The ballot in an election to authorize an efficiency | ||
| audit under this section shall be printed to permit voting for or | ||
| against the proposition: "Requiring _________ Independent School | ||
| District to conduct an efficiency audit." | ||
| (e) An independent school district shall pay for an | ||
| efficiency audit under this section. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
