By Lindsay S.B. No. 1166 75R7702 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the election from districts of members of the governing 1-3 body of a municipality. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 2, Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Chapter 27 to read as follows: 1-7 CHAPTER 27. USE OF DISTRICTS TO ELECT MEMBERS OF GOVERNING BODY 1-8 Sec. 27.001. REQUIREMENTS. (a) If a municipality elects 1-9 some or all of the members of its governing body from a district 1-10 consisting of less than the total area of the municipality, the 1-11 district must: 1-12 (1) be composed of contiguous territory; and 1-13 (2) not be drawn in a manner that divides communities 1-14 of interest or creates a noncompact district if the predominant 1-15 consideration was the separation of persons of different racial or 1-16 ethnic groups. 1-17 (b) Subsection (a)(2) does not apply to a district that is 1-18 narrowly tailored to promote a compelling government interest. 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.