Bill Text: TX HB3889 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the election of trustees of certain school districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-19 - Referred to Public Education [HB3889 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB3889-Introduced.html

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86R11387 SRS-D
By: Ramos H.B. No. 3889

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the election of trustees of certain school districts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 11.052, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (b-3) and amending Subsection (d) to read as
follows:
(b-3) Subsection (c) does not apply in the case of an order
adopted under this subsection. The board of trustees of an
independent school district located wholly or partly in a county
with a population of more than two million but less than three
million shall order that trustees of the district are to be elected
from single-member trustee districts if the district, in October
2017, had:
(1) a student enrollment of more than 50,000;
(2) a student enrollment of more than 35,000 but less
than 40,000; or
(3) a student enrollment of more than 24,000 but less
than 28,000.
(d) An order of the board adopted under Subsection (a), [or]
(b), or (b-3) must be entered not later than the 120th day before
the date of the first election at which all or some of the trustees
are elected from single-member trustee districts authorized by the
order.
SECTION 2. The board of trustees of a school district to
which Section 11.052(b-3), Education Code, as added by this Act,
applies shall adopt an order as required by that section not later
than December 31, 2019.
SECTION 3. 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.