By: Keffer (Senate Sponsor - Duncan) H.B. No. 2016
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 22, 2013;
April 24, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on
Education; May 8, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 8, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the receipt or consideration of a petition requesting
detachment and annexation by the board of trustees of a school
district after adoption of consolidation resolutions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 13, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 13.1521 to read as follows:
Sec. 13.1521. RECEIPT OR CONSIDERATION OF PETITION
REQUESTING DETACHMENT AND ANNEXATION AFTER ADOPTION OF
CONSOLIDATION RESOLUTIONS. If a resolution in favor of
consolidation has been adopted by the board of trustees of each
school district proposed to be consolidated into a particular
single district, none of those boards of trustees may receive or
consider a petition requesting detachment and annexation under
Subchapter B without the consent of each of the other of those
boards of trustees:
(1) before consolidation; or
(2) before consolidation is disapproved at an election
under Section 13.153.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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