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   1-17  Education Code, are repealed.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.