By: Lujan (Senate Sponsor - Campbell) H.B. No. 4210
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2023;
May 5, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on
Education; May 12, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 12, 2023, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE VOTE
YeaNayAbsentPNV
CreightonX
CampbellX
BettencourtX
BirdwellX
FloresX
KingX
LaMantiaX
MenéndezX
MiddletonX
ParkerX
PaxtonX
SpringerX
WestX
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the qualifications to serve as a member of a board of
trustees of a military reservation school district and rules
adopted by the State Board of Education for the governance of a
special-purpose district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 11.352(b) and (c), Education Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(b) For each military reservation school district, the
State Board of Education may appoint a board of three or five
trustees. Enlisted military personnel and military officers may be
appointed to the school board. A majority of the trustees appointed
for the district must be civilians and all may be civilians. The
trustees shall be selected from a list of persons who are qualified
to serve as members of a school district board of trustees under
Section 11.061 and who live on or are employed on the military
reservation. A person who retires from active duty or civilian
service while serving a term as a member of the board of trustees
may continue to serve for the remainder of that person's term. The
list shall be furnished to the board by the commanding officer of
the military reservation. The trustees appointed serve terms of
two years.
(c) The State Board of Education shall [may] adopt rules for
the governance of a special-purpose district. In the absence of a
rule adopted under this subsection, the laws applicable to
independent school districts apply to a special-purpose district.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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