76R8530 CMR-D
By Keel, Hunter, et al. H.B. No. 1618
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1618:
By Hunter C.S.H.B. No. 1618
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the creation of library districts.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 326.004(a), Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) A library district may be created [in a county with a
1-7 population of more than 100,000] and[, if created,] must be
1-8 maintained, operated, and financed as provided by this chapter.
1-9 SECTION 2. Sections 326.022(a) and (c), Local Government
1-10 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-11 (a) A district may include any contiguous territory within a
1-12 single county [that, on the date on which an election is ordered on
1-13 the question of creating the district, is not in a municipality
1-14 that operates a municipal public library].
1-15 (c) If the boundaries of the proposed district include any
1-16 territory that, on the date on which an election is ordered on the
1-17 question of creating the district, is part of a municipality that
1-18 operated a municipal public library, then the governing authority
1-19 of that municipality must consent by resolution to allow the
1-20 inclusion of that municipal territory in the proposed district [A
1-21 district may not include territory in more than one county].
1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.