Bill Text: TX SB2283 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of persons convicted of certain offenses to serve as a member of a board of trustees of a school district.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB2283 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB2283-Comm_Sub.html
 
 
  By: Campbell  S.B. No. 2283
         (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2019; March 21, 2019, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 30, 2019,
  reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
  following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 30, 2019, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2283 By:  Campbell
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the eligibility of persons convicted of certain
  offenses to serve as a member of a board of trustees of a school
  district.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 11.066, Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 11.066.  ELIGIBILITY FOR SERVICE BY TRUSTEE WHO IS 
  CONVICTED OF CERTAIN OFFENSES OR WHO PLEADS GUILTY OR NOLO
  CONTENDERE TO THOSE OFFENSES [OFFENSE].  A person is ineligible to
  serve as a member of the board of trustees of a school district if
  the person has been convicted of or pleaded guilty or nolo
  contendere to a felony or an offense under Section 43.02(b), Penal
  Code.
         SECTION 2.  Section 11.066, Education Code, as amended by
  this Act, applies only to a member of a board of trustees of a school
  district who is elected or appointed on or after the effective date
  of this Act. A member of a board of trustees of a school district
  elected or appointed before the effective date of this Act
  continues to serve for the term to which the member was elected or
  appointed unless otherwise removed as provided by law.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
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