By Davis                                              H.B. No. 3568

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                                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.