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.