By Munoz                                              H.B. No. 1470
       74R5656 CAS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to decisions of school district boards of trustees
    1-3  concerning detachment and annexation of certain school district
    1-4  territory.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 19.0221(i), Education Code, is amended to
    1-7  read as follows:
    1-8        (i)  If both boards of trustees of the affected districts
    1-9  disapprove the petition, the decisions are final and may not be
   1-10  appealed.  If the board of trustees of only one of the <either>
   1-11  affected districts <district> disapproves the petition, an
   1-12  aggrieved party to the proceedings in either district may appeal
   1-13  the board's decision to the commissioner of education under Section
   1-14  11.13 of this code.  An appeal under this subsection is de novo.
   1-15  In deciding the appeal, the commissioner shall consider the
   1-16  educational interests of any future students expected to reside in
   1-17  the affected territory, the educational interests of students in
   1-18  the affected districts, and the social, economic, and educational
   1-19  effects of the proposed boundary change, as well as any material
   1-20  adverse economic effect on taxable property in the affected
   1-21  territory.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  Section 19.0221(i), Education Code, as amended by
   1-23  this Act, applies to a decision by a board of trustees of a school
   1-24  district made on or after the effective date of this Act even if
    2-1  the decision concerns a petition for detachment and annexation of
    2-2  school district territory presented to the board before the
    2-3  effective date of this Act.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-5        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.