By Williamson H.B. No. 1065
75R1986 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to minimum voter turnout in an election on creation of a
1-3 new school district by detaching territory from one or more
1-4 existing school districts.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 13.104(c), Education Code, is amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (c) An election on the detachment of the territory and
1-9 creation of a new district has no effect unless at least five [25]
1-10 percent of the registered voters of each district vote in the
1-11 election in which the issue is on the ballot.
1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.