By:  Eckels                                           H.B. No. 2448
       73R6625 JSA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the composition of certain state representative and
    1-3  State Board of Education districts.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5                               ARTICLE I
    1-6        SECTION 1.  (a)  The districts of the Texas House of
    1-7  Representatives established by Chapter 2, Acts of the 72nd
    1-8  Legislature, 3rd Called Session, 1992, are modified as follows:
    1-9              (1)  block 103 of Harris County tract 0223.02 is
   1-10  transferred from District 142 to District 140;
   1-11              (2)  block 603 of Harris County tract 0347.01 is
   1-12  transferred from District 145 to District 147; and
   1-13              (3)  block 219 of Harris County tract 0325.02 is
   1-14  transferred from District 145 to District 147.
   1-15        (b)  In this section, "block" and "tract" have the meanings
   1-16  assigned by Section 1, Article III, Chapter 2, Acts of the 72nd
   1-17  Legislature, 3rd Called Session, 1992.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  This article takes effect beginning with the
   1-19  election of members of the 74th Legislature.  The changes made by
   1-20  this article do not affect the membership, personnel, or districts
   1-21  of, or election to, the 73rd Legislature.
   1-22                              ARTICLE II
   1-23        SECTION 1.  (a)  The districts of the members of the State
   1-24  Board of Education established by Section 11.2101, Education Code,
    2-1  are modified as follows:
    2-2              (1)  block 501 of Harris County tract 0530.02 is
    2-3  transferred from District 4 to District 6;
    2-4              (2)  block 219 of Harris County tract 0325.02 is
    2-5  transferred from District 4 to District 7; and
    2-6              (3)  block 413 of Harris County tract 0426.02 is
    2-7  transferred from District 4 to District 6.
    2-8        (b)  In this section, "block" and "tract" have the meanings
    2-9  assigned by Sections 11.2101(q) and (r), Education Code.
   2-10        SECTION 2.  The changes made to the districts of the State
   2-11  Board of Education by this article take effect beginning with the
   2-12  next general election held in each district changed by this article
   2-13  that occurs after the effective date of this Act.  This article
   2-14  does not affect the term of any member of the board serving on the
   2-15  effective date of this Act, and the staggered terms established
   2-16  after the election of the members of the board pursuant to the 1991
   2-17  reapportionment of the board continue in effect notwithstanding
   2-18  this article.
   2-19                              ARTICLE III
   2-20        SECTION 1.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-25  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-26  passage, and it is so enacted.