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  are repealed: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.

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