Form, Content, and Procedure: An application for a place on the ballot must be in writing; signed, sworn to by the candidate before a person authorized to administer an oath, and dated; timely filed with the dis-trict’s filing authority (often the superintendent’s secretary or another designated district employee); and contain specified information about the candidate:
• The candidate’s name, date of birth, and occupation;
• The candidate’s residence address or the address at which the candidate receives mail with a description of the location of the candidate’s residence;
• The candidate’s length of continuous residence in Texas and in the district (and single mem-ber district, if applicable) as of the date the candidate swears to the application;
• If available, a public mailing address and email address at which the candidate receives corre-spondence relating to the candidate’s campaign;
• The office sought, including any place or other distinguishing number and an indication of whether the office sought is for a full or unexpired term;
• Statements that the candidate is a U.S. citizen; has not been determined by a court to be mentally incapacitated; has not been convicted of a felony; is aware of the nepotism law; and swears an oath to support and defend the U.S. and Texas Constitutions and laws.
Eligibility: An individual is eligible to be a candidate for, or elected or appointed to, a Texas school board if the individual:
• Is a United States citizen;
• Is 18 years of age or older on the first day of the term to be filled at the election or on the date of appointment, as applicable;
• Has not been determined by a final judgment of a court exercising probate jurisdiction to be totally mentally incapacitated or partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote;
• Has not been finally convicted of a felony;
• Has resided continuously in the state for 12 months and in the territory from which the office is elected for six months immediately preceding the following date:
*For an independent candidate, the date of the regular filing deadline for a candidate’s name is written in; or
*For an appointee to an office, the date the appointment is made;
• Is registered to vote in the territory from which the office is elected on the date described above; and
• Satisfies any other eligibility requirements prescribed by law for the office.
Tex. Elec. Code § 141.001; Tex. Educ. Code § 11.066.
