By Williamson                                   H.B. No. 1063

      75R1993 CAS-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to minimum area and attendance requirements of school

 1-3     districts that result from detaching school district territory to

 1-4     create a new school district.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 13.102, Education Code, is amended to

 1-7     read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 13.102.  MINIMUM AREA AND ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS.  (a)

 1-9     A new district may [not] be created only with either:

1-10                 (1)  an area of at least [less than] nine square miles;

1-11     or

1-12                 (2)  at least [fewer than] 8,000 students in average

1-13     daily attendance.

1-14           (b)  Each remaining [, and a] district must retain either:

1-15                 (1)  [may not be reduced to] an area of at least [less

1-16     than] nine square miles; or

1-17                 (2)  at least [fewer than] 8,000 students in average

1-18     daily attendance.

1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.