By: Nichols  S.B. No. 2540
         (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 2025; April 3, 2025, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Education K-16;
  April 22, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11,
  Nays 0; April 22, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the terms of certain agreements involving minor
  boundary adjustments between two contiguous school districts.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 13.231, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsections  (c)  and  (d)  to read as follows:
         (c)  An agreement executed under this section on or after
  January 1, 2025, must include, if applicable:
               (1)  any term or terms of the agreement, including
  restrictions, covenants, or contracts, that will continue to apply
  in force and effect with respect to the real property in the
  territory following the transfer of that territory from one school
  district to the other; and
               (2)  a brief explanation of the privileges, rights, and
  responsibilities of each school district with respect to a term
  described under Subdivision (1).
         (d)  For an agreement executed under this section on or after
  January 1, 2025, but before the effective date of this Act, a term
  described under Subsection (c)(1) is effective as of January 1,
  2025, or a subsequent date agreed to by the parties.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
 
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