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   1-12  repealed.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.