HBA-MPM S.B. 111 76(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisS.B. 111 By: Carona Public Education 4/19/1999 Engrossed BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Current law does not authorize the board of trustees in certain independent school districts to require candidates to receive a majority of votes to be elected. Trustees are allowed to be elected through a simple plurality vote, which may result in a candidate winning without a majority of the votes. S.B. 111 provides the majority vote option for the board of trustees of an independent school district in which the positions of trustees are designated by number or in which the trustees are elected from single-member districts. 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 11.057, Education Code, as follows: Sec. 11.057. New title: DETERMINATION OF RESULTS; OPTIONAL MAJORITY VOTE REQUIREMENT. (a) Provides that a candidate receiving the highest number of votes for each respective position voted on is elected in an independent school district in which the trustees are elected from single-member trustee districts as provided by Section 11.052 (Single-Member Trustee Districts), Education Code, in addition to those designated by number as provided by Section 11.058 (Election by Position), Education Code, except as provided by proposed Subsection (c). (b) Makes a conforming change. (c) Authorizes the board of trustees (board) of an independent school district (district) in which the positions of the trustees are designated by number or in which they are elected from single-member trustee districts as provided by Section 11.052, Education Code, to provide by resolution and no later than the 180th day before an election, that a candidate must receive a majority vote for a position or in a trustee district, as applicable, to be elected. Provides that a resolution adopted under this subsection is effective until rescinded by a subsequent resolution adopted no later than the 180th day before the first election to which the recission applies. SECTION 2. Provides that Section 11.057, Education Code, as amended by this Act, does not require a district to elect trustees in a manner other than that the district was using on June 1, 1999. SECTION 3. Effective date: September 1, 1999. SECTION 4. Emergency clause.