HB 2416 Summary

• Expands the definition of employees ineligible for school district governing board membership to include persons who provide certified or classified services as employees of third-party contractors.

• Requires county school superintendents to publish candidate statements on their websites, including candidate photographs, statements not exceeding 500 words, and disclosure of family relationships to current board members or other candidates to the third degree.

• Modifies family relationship restrictions for five-member governing boards in school districts with at least 250 students located in counties with populations exceeding 500,000 persons, allowing no more than two persons related by affinity, consanguinity, or law to the third degree to serve simultaneously.

• Applies the modified family relationship restrictions to candidate eligibility and concurrent candidacy for governing boards meeting the specified student enrollment and county population criteria.

• Allows current governing board members serving on the effective date of the act to complete their current terms despite the new restrictions.