HBA-SEP, JLV H.B. 1754 77(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 1754
By: Gutierrez
Higher Education
3/5/2001
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

As a result of the 2000 federal census, single member junior college
districts will need to be redistricted. Under current law, a county
commissioner, justice of the peace, or constable who holds office at the
time of a change in the precinct boundaries serves the remainder of the
term to which the officer was elected. However, there is no similar statute
authorizing a junior college trustee to do the same.  House Bill 1754
authorizes a member of a board of trustees of a junior college, at the
first election after the junior college is redistricted, to serve the
remainder of the trustee's term. 

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. 

ANALYSIS

House Bill 1754 amends the Education Code to authorize the board of
trustees (board) of any junior college district that elects some or all of
its members from single-member districts, and in which the trustees serve
staggered terms, to provide for the trustees in office at the first
election after the junior college is redistricted to serve for the
remainder of their terms.  If the board provides for the trustees to serve
for the remainder of their terms, the bill requires that the trustee
districts established by the redistricting plan be filled as the staggered
terms of the trustees in office expire.   When the board adopts a
redistricting plan, the bill requires the board to determine from which new
trustee district the position of each trustee in office will be filled as
it becomes vacant.  The bill does not authorize a trustee of a junior
college district to continue in office after a redistricting plan takes
effect if the member no longer resides in the district from which the
trustee was elected. 

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act
takes effect September 1, 2001.