By Hernandez H.B. No. 2370
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the consolidation of public school districts.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 19.051, Education Code,
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) By the procedure described in this subchapter, any of
1-7 the following groups of school districts may consolidate into a
1-8 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>.
1-16 SECTION 2. REPEALS. Sections 23.993, 23.994, and 23.999,
1-17 Education Code, are repealed.
1-18 SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect September
1-19 1, 1993.
1-20 SECTION 4. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
1-21 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.