By: Culberson H.B. No. 2359 73R2453 SMH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to voluntary payments by taxpayers for the purpose of 1-3 funding local school districts. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 31, Tax Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Section 31.011 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 31.011. VOLUNTARY PAYMENTS TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS. If the 1-8 taxing unit is a school district, a person may voluntarily pay an 1-9 amount for the support of the district in addition to the tax and 1-10 any penalty or interest due. The school district shall deposit the 1-11 payment in its general fund and may use the payment only for the 1-12 support of the district. The tax bill or a separate statement 1-13 accompanying the tax bill must give notice of the right to make 1-14 such a payment and must provide for the voluntary payment to be 1-15 included in the same check or other means of payment as the tax. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.