Bill Text: TX HB1789 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the application of nepotism prohibitions to a person appointed or employed by a school district as a bus driver.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-02 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1789 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1789-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1789 | ||
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| relating to the application of nepotism prohibitions to a person | ||
| appointed or employed by a school district as a bus driver. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 573.061, Government Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 573.061. GENERAL EXCEPTIONS. Section 573.041 does not | ||
| apply to: | ||
| (1) an appointment to the office of a notary public or | ||
| to the confirmation of that appointment; | ||
| (2) an appointment of a page, secretary, attendant, or | ||
| other employee by the legislature for attendance on any member of | ||
| the legislature who, because of physical infirmities, is required | ||
| to have a personal attendant; | ||
| (3) a confirmation of the appointment of an appointee | ||
| appointed to a first term on a date when no individual related to | ||
| the appointee within a degree described by Section 573.002 was a | ||
| member of or a candidate for the legislature, or confirmation on | ||
| reappointment of the appointee to any subsequent consecutive term; | ||
| (4) an appointment or employment of a bus driver by a | ||
| school district if: | ||
| (A) the district is located wholly in a county | ||
| with a population of less than 35,000; [ |
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| (B) the district is located in more than one | ||
| county and the county in which the largest part of the district is | ||
| located has a population of less than 35,000; or | ||
| (C) the board of trustees of the district | ||
| approves the appointment or employment; | ||
| (5) an appointment or employment of a personal | ||
| attendant by an officer of the state or a political subdivision of | ||
| the state for attendance on the officer who, because of physical | ||
| infirmities, is required to have a personal attendant; | ||
| (6) an appointment or employment of a substitute | ||
| teacher by a school district; | ||
| (7) an appointment or employment of a person by a | ||
| municipality that has a population of less than 200; or | ||
| (8) an appointment of an election clerk under Section | ||
| 32.031, Election Code, who is not related in the first degree by | ||
| consanguinity or affinity to an elected official of the authority | ||
| that appoints the election judges for that election. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to the appointment or employment of a person by a school district on | ||
| or after the effective date of this Act. A person who is appointed | ||
| or employed by a school district before the effective date of this | ||
| Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the person was | ||
| appointed or employed, and the former law is continued in effect for | ||
| that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1789 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 11, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1789 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 16, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
