H.B. No. 1789

	AN ACT
	relating to the application of nepotism prohibitions to a person
	appointed or employed by a school district as a bus driver.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 573.061, Government Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 573.061.  GENERAL EXCEPTIONS. Section 573.041 does not
	apply to:
	(1)  an appointment to the office of a notary public or
	to the confirmation of that appointment;
	(2)  an appointment of a page, secretary, attendant, or
	other employee by the legislature for attendance on any member of
	the legislature who, because of physical infirmities, is required
	to have a personal attendant;
	(3)  a confirmation of the appointment of an appointee
	appointed to a first term on a date when no individual related to
	the appointee within a degree described by Section 573.002 was a
	member of or a candidate for the legislature, or confirmation on
	reappointment of the appointee to any subsequent consecutive term;
	(4)  an appointment or employment of a bus driver by a
	school district if:
	(A)  the district is located wholly in a county
	with a population of less than 35,000; [or]
	(B)  the district is located in more than one
	county and the county in which the largest part of the district is
	located has a population of less than 35,000; or
	(C)  the board of trustees of the district
	approves the appointment or employment;
	(5)  an appointment or employment of a personal
	attendant by an officer of the state or a political subdivision of
	the state for attendance on the officer who, because of physical
	infirmities, is required to have a personal attendant;
	(6)  an appointment or employment of a substitute
	teacher by a school district;
	(7)  an appointment or employment of a person by a
	municipality that has a population of less than 200; or
	(8)  an appointment of an election clerk under Section
	32.031, Election Code, who is not related in the first degree by
	consanguinity or affinity to an elected official of the authority
	that appoints the election judges for that election.
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to the appointment or employment of a person by a school district on
	or after the effective date of this Act. A person who is appointed
	or employed by a school district before the effective date of this
	Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the person was
	appointed or employed, and the former law is continued in effect for
	that purpose.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 1789 was passed by the House on April
	11, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not
	voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 1789 was passed by the Senate on May
	16, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED:  _____________________
	Date
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	Governor