1-1 By: Keel, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth) H.B. No. 1618
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 1999;
1-3 April 26, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the creation of library districts.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 326.004(a), Local Government Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 (a) A library district may be created [in a county with a
1-13 population of more than 100,000] and[, if created,] must be
1-14 maintained, operated, and financed as provided by this chapter.
1-15 SECTION 2. Sections 326.022(a) and (c), Local Government
1-16 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-17 (a) A district may include any contiguous territory within a
1-18 single county [that, on the date on which an election is ordered on
1-19 the question of creating the district, is not in a municipality
1-20 that operates a municipal public library].
1-21 (c) If the boundaries of the proposed district include any
1-22 territory that, on the date on which an election is ordered on the
1-23 question of creating the district, is part of a municipality that
1-24 operated a municipal public library, then the governing authority
1-25 of that municipality must consent by resolution to allow the
1-26 inclusion of that municipal territory in the proposed district [A
1-27 district may not include territory in more than one county].
1-28 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-29 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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