88R3718 DIO-D
By: Reynolds H.B. No. 1143
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(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) or Section 11.0521,
the board of trustees of an independent school district, on its own
motion, may order that trustees of the district are to be elected
from single-member trustee districts or that not fewer than 70
percent of the members of the board of trustees are to be elected
from single-member trustee districts with the remaining trustees to
be elected from the district at large.
SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 11.0521 to read as follows:
Sec. 11.0521. MULTIMEMBER TRUSTEE DISTRICTS FOR CERTAIN
SCHOOL DISTRICTS. (a) This section applies only to 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.
(b) The board of trustees of an independent school district
to which this section applies shall:
(1) order that trustees of the district are to be
elected as follows:
(A) one trustee elected from the district at
large; and
(B) six trustees elected by position from two
multimember voting districts composed of three trustee positions
each;
(2) divide the school district as nearly as
practicable into two multimember voting districts of equal
population, with one voting district representing the west half of
the school district and the other voting district representing the
east half of the school district; and
(3) designate by number each position on the board of
trustees.
(c) Residents of each multimember voting district are
entitled to cast votes for each trustee position within the
multimember voting district.
SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date
of this Act, the board of trustees of a school district to which
Section 11.0521, Education Code, as added by this Act, applies
shall adopt an order as required by that section.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.