By Johnson H.B. No. 2870
74R7811 ESH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the limit on school district tax rates.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 20.09(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (a) A <Except as provided by Subsections (c) and (d) and
1-7 unless specifically approved in an election called for that
1-8 purpose, a> school district may not impose a maintenance <total>
1-9 tax rate on the $100 valuation of taxable property that exceeds
1-10 $1.50.
1-11 SECTION 2. Sections 20.09(c) and (d), Education Code, are
1-12 repealed.
1-13 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-14 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.