H.B. No. 2016
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.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2016 was passed by the House on April
18, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2016 was passed by the Senate on May
15, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor