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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