88(4) HB 99 - Introduced version - Bill Text

	By:  Morales Shaw	H.B.  No.  99

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the period of appointment of a board of managers of a
	school district.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION  1.    Sections 39A.208(a) and (b), Education Code, are
	amended to read as follows:
	(a)    A board of managers shall, during the period of the
	appointment, order the election of members of the board of trustees
	of the school district in accordance with applicable provisions of
	law.  The [Except as provided by Subsection (b), the] members of the
	board of trustees do not assume any powers or duties after the
	election until the appointment of the board of managers expires.
	(b)    On [Except as otherwise provided by Subsection (c), not
	later than] the second anniversary of the date the board of managers
	of a school district was appointed, the [commissioner shall notify
	the board of managers and the board of trustees of the date on which
	the] appointment of the board of managers expires [will expire.
	Following each of the last three years of the period of the
	appointment, one-third of the members of the board of managers
	shall be replaced by the number of members of the board of trustees
	of the district who were elected at an election ordered under
	Subsection (a) that constitutes, as closely as possible, one-third
	of the membership of the board of trustees].
	SECTION  2.    Section 39A.255(c), Education Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(c)    Nothing in this section or the following provisions of
	this chapter may be construed to modify any provision of Subchapter
	D, Chapter 12, relating to the expiration, nonrenewal, revocation,
	or modification of the governance of an open-enrollment charter
	school:
	(1)    Subchapter C;
	(2)    Subchapter D;
	(3)    Section 39A.201(b);
	(4)    Section 39A.206(a); and
	(5)    Section 39A.207[; and
	[(6)    Section 39A.209].
	SECTION  3.    The following provisions of the Education Code
	are repealed:
	(1)    Section 39A.208(c); and
	(2)    Section 39A.209.
	SECTION  4.    Section 39A.208, Education Code, as amended by
	this Act, applies to a board of managers operating on or after the
	effective date of this Act, regardless of the date on which the
	board of managers was appointed.
	SECTION  5.    This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the
	last day of the legislative session.