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.