84R3580 KKA-D By: Lucio S.B. No. 421 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to participation of certain school districts in the three-year high school diploma plan pilot program. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 28.0255(b), Education Code, is amended to read as follows: (b) This section applies only to a school district: (1) with an enrollment of more than 150,000 students[;] and [(2)] located primarily in a county with [that has] a population of 2.2 million or more [and] that is adjacent to a county with a population of more than 600,000; or (2) located in a county that borders the United Mexican States and the Gulf of Mexico. 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, 2015.