By Williamson H.B. No. 1064
75R1988 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain requirements for a petition that initiates
1-3 creation of a new school district by detaching territory from one
1-4 or more existing school districts.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 13.103, Education Code, is amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 13.103. INITIATION OF DETACHMENT. Creation of a new
1-9 district by detachment is initiated by resolution of the board of
1-10 trustees of each district from which territory is to be detached or
1-11 by a petition presented to the commissioners court. A petition
1-12 under this subchapter must:
1-13 (1) give the metes and bounds of the proposed new
1-14 district;
1-15 (2) be signed by at least five [10] percent of the
1-16 registered voters residing in the proposed area to be detached from
1-17 an existing district; and
1-18 (3) be addressed to the commissioners court of the
1-19 county in which the territory of the proposed district is located
1-20 or, if the territory is in more than one county, to the
1-21 commissioners court of each county in which the territory is
1-22 located.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.