Bill Text: TX HB2016 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed

Texas House Bill 2016 (Prior Session Legislation)

TX State Legislature page for HB2016

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Bill Title: Relating to the receipt or consideration of a petition requesting detachment and annexation by the board of trustees of a school district after adoption of consolidation resolutions.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2016 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2016-Engrossed.html

	83R14085 CAS-D

	By: Keffer	H.B. No. 2016



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the receipt or consideration of a petition requesting
	detachment and annexation by the board of trustees of a school
	district after adoption of consolidation resolutions.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 13, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 13.1521 to read as follows:
	Sec. 13.1521. RECEIPT OR CONSIDERATION OF PETITION
	REQUESTING DETACHMENT AND ANNEXATION AFTER ADOPTION OF
	CONSOLIDATION RESOLUTIONS. If a resolution in favor of
	consolidation has been adopted by the board of trustees of each
	school district proposed to be consolidated into a particular
	single district, none of those boards of trustees may receive or
	consider a petition requesting detachment and annexation under
	Subchapter B without the consent of each of the other of those
	boards of trustees:
	(1) before consolidation; or
	(2) before consolidation is disapproved at an election
	under Section 13.153.
	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, 2013.