Texas 2019 86th Regular

Texas House Bill HB187 Introduced / Bill

Filed 11/12/2018

                    86R2635 SRS-D
 By: Reynolds H.B. No. 187


 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-1) and amending Subsection (d) to read as
 follows:
 (b-1)  Subsection (c) does not apply in the case of an order
 adopted under this subsection. The board of trustees of an
 independent school district with the largest student enrollment in
 a county with a population of 550,000 or more that is adjacent to a
 county with a population of 3.3 million or more shall order that
 trustees of the district are to be elected as follows:
 (1)  one trustee elected from the district at large;
 and
 (2)  the remaining trustees elected from single-member
 trustee districts, with all single-member trustee districts
 grouped into two multimember voting districts in which,
 notwithstanding Subsection (g), residents of each multimember
 voting district are entitled to cast votes for each trustee
 district within the multimember voting district.
 (d)  An order of the board adopted under Subsection (a), [or]
 (b), or (b-1) 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-1), 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.