By: Fallon S.B. No. 1048
(In the Senate - Filed February 22, 2019; March 7, 2019,
read first time and referred to Committee on Property Tax;
April 1, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5,
Nays 0; April 1, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an independent school district holding elections on the
November uniform election date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 11.0581(a), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) An election for trustees of an independent school
district shall be held on the November uniform election date [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].
SECTION 2. Section 41.012, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 41.012. DATE OF ELECTIONS. An election under this
chapter for voter approval of an agreement entered by the board of
trustees shall be held on the November uniform election date [a
Tuesday or Saturday not more than 45 days after the date of the
agreement. Section 41.001, Election Code, does not apply to the
election].
SECTION 3. Section 41.253(b), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) The transitional board of trustees shall divide the
consolidated district into nine single-member trustee districts in
accordance with the procedures provided by Section 11.052. The
transitional board shall order an election for the initial board of
trustees to be held on the first November [May] uniform election
date after the effective date of a consolidation order.
SECTION 4. Subchapter A, Chapter 41, Election Code, is
amended by adding Section 41.0051 to read as follows:
Sec. 41.0051. INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT ELECTION TO ISSUE
BONDS. Notwithstanding any other law, an election for the issuance
of bonds by an independent school district shall be held on the
November uniform election date.
SECTION 5. Section 41.0052, Election Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (a-3) to read as follows:
(a-3) The governing body of an independent school district
that holds its general election for officers on a date other than
the November uniform election date shall, not later than December
31, 2019, change the date on which it holds its general election for
officers to the November uniform election date. This subsection
expires January 1, 2020.
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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