By Hinojosa H.B. No. 1419
76R4400 SMH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the collection, use, and distribution of delinquent
1-3 county education district taxes.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 4.15(e), Chapter 347, Acts of the 73rd
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (e) A [The] component school district [districts] of a
1-8 county education district abolished by this Act may collect and use
1-9 [or distribute] taxes imposed on property in the school district
1-10 by the county education district that are delinquent [in the manner
1-11 provided by rule of the commissioner of education]. The school
1-12 district is not required to:
1-13 (1) distribute the taxes collected to the other
1-14 component school districts of the county education district; or
1-15 (2) report to the other component school districts or
1-16 the commissioner of education with regard to the amount of taxes
1-17 collected.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to taxes collected on or
1-19 after the effective date of this Act in a delinquent tax suit filed
1-20 before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.