By: Clardy H.B. No. 1133
        (Senate Sponsor - Hughes, Bettencourt)
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2021;
  May 6, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Education; May 14, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 14, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to an election to revoke a county equalization tax imposed
  in certain counties.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 45, Education Code, is amended by adding
  Subchapter K to read as follows:
  SUBCHAPTER K. COUNTY EQUALIZATION TAX
         Sec. 45.351.  APPLICABILITY.  This subchapter applies only
  to a county:
               (1)  with a population of more than 40,000 but less than
  55,000; and
               (2)  for which a county equalization tax was adopted
  under former Chapter 18 of this code, as that chapter existed on May
  1, 1995, and continues in effect under Section 11.301.
         Sec. 45.352.  ELECTION TO REVOKE COUNTY EQUALIZATION TAX.
  The commissioners court of a county to which this subchapter
  applies may order an election on the question of revoking the county
  equalization tax, in accordance with former Section 18.11 of this
  code and other applicable provisions of former Chapter 18, as that
  chapter existed on May 1, 1995, that continues in effect under
  Section 11.301.
         SECTION 2.  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, 2021.
 
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