Committee approves revised process for filling school board vacancies after amendment
Lawmakers approved changes to the statutory process for filling local school board vacancies, adding transparency and a public-notice requirement and retaining the school board as the first appointing body, with quorum court as a secondary authority.
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Senator Missy Irvin presented a rewritten version of a bill (Senate Bill 484) that restructured how local school-board vacancies are posted and filled. The revised language preserves the local school board as the first authority to fill a vacancy and adds public-notice requirements including publication in a local newspaper and on the school district’s official website.
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