By Davis H.B. No. 3568 75R11628 KKA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the dissolution of certain school districts. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 13, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 13.232 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 13.232. DISSOLUTION OF CERTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICTS. (a) 1-7 This section applies only to an independent school district that: 1-8 (1) was a municipal school district before separating 1-9 from municipal control; 1-10 (2) contains territory consisting primarily of the 1-11 territory of a single municipality; and 1-12 (3) has a membership of not less than 145,000 1-13 students. 1-14 (b) On request by a qualified voter of a school district to 1-15 which this section may apply, the commissioners court of the county 1-16 in which the district's central administrative office is located 1-17 shall determine if the district is one to which this section 1-18 applies. The commissioners court shall make the determination not 1-19 later than the 30th day after the date of receiving the request of 1-20 the qualified voter. If the commissioners court determines that 1-21 this section applies to the district, the commissioners court shall 1-22 issue an order not later than the 180th day after the date the 1-23 court makes its determination dissolving the district and 1-24 establishing new districts in accordance with this section. The 2-1 order is effective on the first July 1 that is more than 30 days 2-2 after the date the order is issued. 2-3 (c) An order dissolving a district under Subsection (b) 2-4 shall establish at least two independent school districts from the 2-5 territory of the dissolved district. The order shall define the 2-6 boundaries of the districts. One of the districts must contain 2-7 only territory that is within: 2-8 (1) the municipal boundaries of the largest 2-9 municipality in which the dissolved district was principally 2-10 located; and 2-11 (2) the five contiguous legislative districts of the 2-12 Texas House of Representatives with the lowest per capita incomes 2-13 of all the legislative districts that include territory located in 2-14 the municipality described by Subdivision (1). 2-15 (d) The commissioners court shall appoint a board of seven 2-16 trustees for each of the new districts to serve until the next 2-17 regular election of trustees, when a board of trustees shall be 2-18 elected in compliance with Subchapter C, Chapter 11. 2-19 (e) Title to real property owned by the dissolved district 2-20 at the time of dissolution vests in the new district in which the 2-21 property is located. Each new district assumes and is liable for 2-22 the portion of the outstanding indebtedness of the dissolved 2-23 district that is allocated to the new district under Section 2-24 13.004. 2-25 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 3-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 3-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 3-4 passage, and it is so enacted.