By: Hunter, T. H.B. No. 64
73R490 CAE-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the consolidation of independent school districts.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 19.051, Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 19.051. Districts That May Consolidate. (a) By the
1-7 procedure described in this subchapter, any of the following groups
1-8 of school districts may consolidate into a single school district:
1-9 (1) two or more contiguous independent school
1-10 districts;
1-11 (2) two or more contiguous common school districts;
1-12 <or>
1-13 (3) one or more independent school districts and one
1-14 or more common school districts constituting as a whole one
1-15 continuous territory; or
1-16 (4) two or more independent school districts located
1-17 in a county with a population of 210,000 or more.
1-18 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (a)(4) of this section,
1-19 the <The> consolidated district may include area in more than one
1-20 county.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.