86R3665 SRS-D
By: Springer H.B. No. 613
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the date of the election for trustees of an independent
school district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 11.0581, Education Code,
is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 11.0581. JOINT ELECTION PROCEDURES [ELECTIONS
REQUIRED].
SECTION 2. Sections 11.0581(a), (b), and (d), Education
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) This section applies to an [An] election for trustees of
an independent school district [shall be] held on the same date as:
(1) the election for the members of the governing body
of a municipality located in the school district;
(2) the general election for state and county
officers;
(3) the election for the members of the governing body
of a hospital district, if the school district:
(A) is wholly or partly located in a county with a
population of less than 40,000 that is adjacent to a county with a
population of more than three million; and
(B) held its election for trustees jointly with
the election for the members of the governing body of the hospital
district before May 2007; or
(4) the election for the members of the governing
board of a public junior college district in which the school
district is wholly or partly located.
(b) Elections held on the same date as described [provided]
by Subsection (a) shall be held as a joint election under Chapter
271, Election Code.
(d) The board of trustees of an independent school district
changing an election date to hold a joint election under [to comply
with] this section shall adjust the terms of office of its members
to conform to the new election date.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.