By Kuempel H.B. No. 3459
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to minimum area, attendance and election requirements for
1-3 creation of a new school district.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 13.102, Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 A new district may not be created with an area of less than
1-8 250 [nine] square miles or fewer than 10,000 [8,000] students in
1-9 average daily attendance, and a district may not be reduced to an
1-10 area of less than 250 [nine] square miles or fewer than 10,000
1-11 [8,000] students in average daily attendance.
1-12 SECTION 2. Chapter 13.104(c), Education Code, is amended to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 An election on the detachment of the territory and creation
1-15 of a new district has no effect unless at least ten [25] percent of
1-16 the registered voters of each district vote in the election in
1-17 which the issue is on the ballot.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 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.