Bill Text: TX SB2206 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the availability of certain information regarding the members of the governing body of an independent school district or a public junior college district on the district's Internet website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-21 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB2206 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB2206-Comm_Sub.html

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86R30899 SOS-F
By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 2206
(Bell of Montgomery)
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 2206: No.

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the availability of certain information regarding the
members of the governing body of an independent school district or a
public junior college district on the district's Internet website.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 11.1518 to read as follows:
Sec. 11.1518. TRUSTEE INFORMATION POSTED ON WEBSITE. (a)
Each school district that maintains an Internet website shall post
on the website the name, e-mail address, and term of office,
including the date the term began and the date the term expires, of
each member of the district's board of trustees.
(b) If a school district does not maintain an Internet
website, the district shall submit the information required by
Subsection (a) to the agency. On receipt of the district's
information, the agency shall post the information on the agency's
Internet website.
(c) Each time there is a change in the membership of a school
district's board of trustees, the district shall update the
information required under Subsection (a) and, as applicable:
(1) post the updated information on the district's
Internet website; or
(2) submit the updated information to the agency for
posting on the agency's Internet website in accordance with
Subsection (b).
SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 130.0841 to read as follows:
Sec. 130.0841. GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER INFORMATION POSTED ON
WEBSITE. (a) Each junior college district shall post on the
district's Internet website the name, e-mail address, and term of
office, including the date the term began and the date the term
expires, of each member of the governing board of the district.
(b) The information required under Subsection (a) must be
updated each time there is a change in the membership of the
governing board.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.