87R9561 TSS-D
By: VanDeaver H.B. No. 2688
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the term of office for certain trustees of an
independent school district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 11.059, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
follows:
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (e), a [A] trustee of
an independent school district serves a term of three or four years.
(e) If a trustee votes in favor of making a severance
payment, as defined by Section 11.201(c), to the superintendent of
the school district less than one year after the trustee voted in
favor of accepting or extending the superintendent's contract or
increasing the superintendent's salary, the trustee must, to retain
a position on the board, seek reelection at the next regularly
scheduled trustee election, regardless of the time remaining on the
trustee's term. The person elected at the election held under this
subsection shall serve for the remainder of the trustee's term.
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, 2021.