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Special districts—local government bodies that provide services like water, fire protection, or mosquito abatement—have boards of trustees that vote on matters including fee and tax increases. Under this bill, if an appointed board member is not currently an elected official (either because they never were, or because they lost that status while serving), that member could not vote on a proposal to raise assessments, fees, or taxes within the district, and the appointing authority would instead have to designate an "alternative board member"—someone holding elected office at the state or local level—to serve on the board specifically to consider and vote on that proposed increase. This alternative board member would only be required to participate when the board is taking up such a proposed increase, and would not otherwise serve as a regular board member. The bill also renumbers and reorganizes existing sections of the law governing how vacancies on special district boards are filled, without substantially changing those procedures.