By Lindsay                                             S.B. No. 535
         76R4721 CAG-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the effect of a municipal annexation on a school
 1-3     district located in an annexed area.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 43, Local Government Code,
 1-6     is amended by adding Section 43.905 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 43.905.  EFFECT OF ANNEXATION ON OPERATION OF SCHOOL
 1-8     DISTRICT.  (a)  A municipality that proposes to annex an area shall
 1-9     provide written notice of the proposed annexation to each public
1-10     school district located in the area proposed to be annexed within
1-11     the time period prescribed for publishing the notice of the first
1-12     hearing under Section 43.052.
1-13           (b)  A notice to a public school district shall contain a
1-14     description of:
1-15                 (1)  the area within the district proposed to be
1-16     annexed;
1-17                 (2)  any financial impact on the district resulting
1-18     from the annexation, including any changes in utility costs; and
1-19                 (3)  any proposal the municipality has to abate,
1-20     reduce, or limit any financial impact on the district.
1-21           (c)  The municipality may not proceed with the annexation
1-22     unless the city provides the required notice.
1-23           (d)  A municipality that has annexed any portion of an area
1-24     after December 1, 1996, and before September 1, 1999, in which a
 2-1     school district has a facility shall grant a variance from the
 2-2     municipality's building code for that facility if the facility does
 2-3     not comply with the code.
 2-4           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-5           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.