By: Rodriguez S.B. No. 122
(In the Senate - Filed November 12, 2012; January 29, 2013,
read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
March 27, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 27, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the removal from office of a member of the board of
trustees of an independent school district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 87.012, Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 87.012. OFFICERS SUBJECT TO REMOVAL. The district
judge may, under this subchapter, remove from office:
(1) a district attorney;
(2) a county attorney;
(3) a county judge;
(4) a county commissioner;
(5) a county clerk;
(6) a district clerk;
(7) a district and county clerk;
(8) a county treasurer;
(9) a sheriff;
(10) a county surveyor;
(11) a county tax assessor-collector;
(12) a constable;
(13) a justice of the peace; [and]
(14) a member of the board of trustees of an
independent school district; and
(15) a county officer, not otherwise named by this
section, whose office is created under the constitution or other
law of this state.
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, 2013.
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