The Florida Senate

230.106  District school board composition in counties meeting certain requirements; elector referendum on single-member residence areas.--

(1)  In a county that has a population of 1 million or more persons as of the last decennial census, other than a county as defined in s. 125.011(1), the district school board shall submit to the electors for approval at a referendum to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 1997, the question of whether the school board should be composed of nine members, seven of whom are to be elected from a single-member residence area by electors residing in the single-member residence area only, and two of whom are to be elected at-large, notwithstanding the provisions of s. 230.061, s. 230.10, or s. 230.105.

(2)  If the electors approve such election of district school board members, the seven single-member residence areas must be drawn by the school board, and the district school board shall provide for the orderly transition to such election of school board members as the terms of incumbent school board members expire.

History.--s. 1, ch. 97-88.