By: VanDeaver (Senate Sponsor - Hughes)	H.B. No. 4276
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2017;
	May 11, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
	Administration; May 23, 2017, reported favorably by the following
	vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 23, 2017, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the Paris Junior College District.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 130.0829 to read as follows:
	Sec. 130.0829.  GOVERNING BOARD OF PARIS JUNIOR COLLEGE
	DISTRICT. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this
	subchapter, the governing board of the Paris Junior College
	District may provide by resolution or order of the board for the
	election of nine board members as follows:
	(1)  eight members elected from respective
	commissioner precincts and evenly allocated among those precincts;
	and
	(2)  one member elected at large.
	(b)  A resolution or order of the governing board under
	Subsection (a) must establish transition terms of office to conform
	to elections held in even-numbered years and staggered six-year
	terms.
	(c)  Notwithstanding Section 41.0052, Election Code, the
	governing board of the Paris Junior College District by resolution
	or order of the board may change the date on which the district
	holds its general election for board members to the November
	uniform election date.  The governing board shall adjust the terms
	of office to conform to a change made to the election date under
	this subsection.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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