HBA-NLM C.S.H.B. 1226 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisC.S.H.B. 1226
By: Jones, Jesse
Public Education
5/10/1999
Committee Report (Substituted)



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Currently, members of a school board are required to select a president,
secretary, and all other officers and committees the board considers
necessary at the first meeting after each election and qualification of
trustees. C.S.H.B. 1226 requires a school board, at the first meeting after
each election and qualification of trustees, other than a special election,
to select officers and committees not more frequently than annually.  

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 11.061(c), Education Code, to require the
members, at the first meeting after each election and qualification of
trustees, other than a special election, to organize, by selecting officers
and committees, not more frequently than annually. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date: September 1, 1999.

SECTION 3.  Provides that Section 11.061(c), Education Code, as amended by
this Act, does not prohibit a board of trustees from organizing and
electing new officers on or after the effective date of the Act, regardless
of the date on which the trustees previously selected officers.  Provides
that on the first date on or after the effective date of this Act that
trustees select the officers, the trustees become subject to Section
11.061(c), Education Code, as amended by this Act, and are prohibited from
selecting new officers for one year, except as provided by Section
11.061(e), Education Code, as amended by this Act. 

SECTION 4.  Emergency clause.

COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL TO SUBSTITUTE

C.S.H.B. 1226 modifies the original in SECTION 1 (Section 11.061, Education
Code) by reinstating text requiring the members to organize at the first
meeting after each election and qualification of trustees.  The substitute
also specifies that this requirement applies to the first meeting other
than after a special election.  The substitute removes proposed Subsection
(e) which authorized  the trustees to select a trustee at any time to serve
as an officer if that office became vacant and to select any committees the
trustees considered necessary.