Bill Text: TX SB2247 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the Paris Junior College District.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (N/A - Dead) 2017-05-10 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB2247 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB2247-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Hughes S.B. No. 2247
(In the Senate - Filed March 20, 2017; April 4, 2017, read
first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;
May 2, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 2, 2017,
sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2247 By: Menéndez

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the Paris Junior College District.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 130.0829 to read as follows:
Sec. 130.0829. GOVERNING BOARD OF PARIS JUNIOR COLLEGE
DISTRICT. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this
subchapter, the governing board of the Paris Junior College
District may provide by resolution or order of the board for the
election of nine board members as follows:
(1) eight members elected from respective
commissioner precincts and evenly allocated among those precincts;
and
(2) one member elected at large.
(b) A resolution or order of the governing board under
Subsection (a) must establish transition terms of office to conform
to elections held in even-numbered years and staggered six-year
terms.
(c) Notwithstanding Section 41.0052, Election Code, the
governing board of the Paris Junior College District by resolution
or order of the board may change the date on which the district
holds its general election for board members to the November
uniform election date. The governing board shall adjust the terms
of office to conform to a change made to the election date under
this subsection.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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