| 1 | 1 | | By: King of Zavala (Senate Sponsor - Uresti) H.B. No. 1871 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Received from the House April 15, 2013; |
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| 3 | 3 | | April 17, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on State |
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| 4 | 4 | | Affairs; May 7, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: |
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| 5 | 5 | | Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 7, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | 7 | | |
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| 8 | 8 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 9 | 9 | | AN ACT |
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| 10 | 10 | | relating to the allocation of the expenses of a joint election to |
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| 11 | 11 | | certain school districts. |
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| 12 | 12 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 13 | 13 | | SECTION 1. Section 11.0581, Education Code, is amended by |
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| 14 | 14 | | adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: |
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| 15 | 15 | | (e) The joint election agreement allocating expenses as |
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| 16 | 16 | | provided by Section 271.004, Election Code, must provide that a |
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| 17 | 17 | | school district is responsible only for the proportion of election |
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| 18 | 18 | | expenses that corresponds to the proportion that the number of |
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| 19 | 19 | | registered voters in the school district bears to the total number |
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| 20 | 20 | | of registered voters in all political subdivisions participating in |
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| 21 | 21 | | the joint election. This subsection applies only to a school |
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| 22 | 22 | | district: |
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| 23 | 23 | | (1) that has territory located in at least four |
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| 24 | 24 | | counties, each of which has a population of less than 46,100; and |
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| 25 | 25 | | (2) no part of which is located in a municipality. |
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| 26 | 26 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 27 | 27 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 28 | 28 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 29 | 29 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 30 | 30 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |
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| 31 | 31 | | * * * * * |
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