H.B. No. 606

	AN ACT
	relating to certain election procedures for common school district
	board elections.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter G, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 11.304 to read as follows:
	Sec. 11.304.  WRITE-IN VOTING: COMMON SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD
	ELECTION. The procedures for write-in voting prescribed for an
	election for trustees of an independent school district under
	Section 11.056 apply to an election for trustees of a common school
	district operating under former Chapter 22 as that chapter existed
	on May 1, 1995.
	SECTION 2.  Section 11.304, Education Code, as added by this
	Act, applies only to the conduct of an election for trustees of a
	common school district that is ordered on or after the effective
	date of this Act.  The conduct of an election for trustees of a
	common school district that is ordered before the effective date of
	this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the election
	was ordered, and the former law is continued in effect for that
	purpose.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 606 was passed by the House on May 2,
	2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 606 was passed by the Senate on May
	15, 2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED:  _____________________
	Date
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	Governor