MS HB43

Municipal separate school district trustees would be elected by qualified voters from five special trustee election districts beginning with the June 2013 municipal elections, with elections held every four years thereafter

Local school boards must apportion their districts into five trustee election districts based on population, with boundaries subject to federal Voting Rights Act preclearance

County superintendents of education would become appointed positions by school boards, unless the incumbent superintendent serving on July 1, 2011 sought and won reelection, in which case the position remains elective until that superintendent leaves office

Petition requirements for school board candidates are standardized at 50 signatures from qualified electors (or 20% if fewer than 100 electors exist in the district), filed at least 60 days before the election

Repeals multiple existing statutes governing various methods of selecting trustees for municipal and special municipal separate school districts, as well as provisions for electing county superintendents of education