House Bill 4789

    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HB 4789

        By Representative Sublette






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to district school board

  3         elections; requiring a referendum in certain

  4         counties with respect to the composition and

  5         manner of electing the school board; requiring

  6         affected school boards to provide for orderly

  7         transition to a school board so composed if

  8         approved by the electors; providing an

  9         effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  (1)  In a county that has a population of

14  more than 800,000 persons, but less than 1 million persons,

15  and in which the members of the board of county commissioners

16  are elected in nonpartisan elections and the members of the

17  district school board are elected in partisan elections, the

18  district school board must submit to the electors for approval

19  or rejection at a referendum to be held on the first Tuesday

20  after the first Monday in November 1998 the question of

21  whether the school board shall be composed of seven members to

22  be elected in partisan elections, each from a single-member

23  residence area by electors residing in the single-member

24  residence area only, notwithstanding the provisions of s.

25  230.061, s. 230.10, or s. 230.105, Florida Statutes.

26         (2)  If the electors approve such election of district

27  school board members, the seven single-member residence areas

28  must be drawn by the district school board, and the district

29  school board shall provide for the orderly transition to such

30  election of school board members as the terms of incumbent

31  school board members expire.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HB 4789

    534-192A-98






  1         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

  2  law.

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  5                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Requires a referendum in certain counties to pose the
  7    question of whether the district school board shall
      consist of seven members to be elected in partisan
  8    elections, each from a single-member residence area by
      electors residing in that residence area only. Requires
  9    affected school boards to provide for orderly transition
      to a school board so composed if approved by the
10    electors.

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