Amend CSSB 1019 (Senate committee printed version) by
striking all below the enacting clause and substituting the
following:
      SECTION 1.  Section 26.08, Tax Code (a), is amended to read
as follows:
(a)  If the governing body of a school district adopts a rate that
exceeds the <sum of the > district's rollback tax <effective
maintenance> rate, <the rate of $0.08, and the district's current
debt rate,> the registered voters of the district at an election
held for that purpose must determine whether to limit the tax rate
the governing body may adopt for the current year to the school
district rollback tax rate.  When increased expenditure of money by
a school district is necessary to respond to a disaster, including
a tornado, hurricane, flood, or other calamity, but not including a
drought, that has impacted a school district and the governor has
requested federal disaster assistance for the area in which the
school district is located, an election is not required under this
section to limit the tax rate the governing body may adopt for the
year following the year in which the disaster occurs.
      SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
and that this act take effect and be in force from and after its
passage, and it is so enacted.