By: Gutierrez H.B. No. 2542
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a study comparing the effects on school district
  consolidation for Bexar County.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The Texas Education Agency shall conduct a study
  to determine whether there is a cost benefit or efficiency to
  consolidate school districts in Bexar County:
               (1)  Consolidate to one school district;
               (2)  Consolidate to five school districts.
         SECTION 2.  No later than December 1, 2014, The Texas
  Education Agency shall:
               (1)  publish the results of the study required by this
  Act on the commission's available Internet website; and
               (2)  deliver the results of the study required by this
  Act to:
                     (A)  the governor, the lieutenant governor, the
  speaker of the house of representatives, and each committee of each
  house of the legislature that has jurisdiction over public
  education and
                     (B)  the Mayor of the City of San Antonio and
                     (C)  each Bexar County School District.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2013.