Bill Text: TX HB2778 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the allocation of expenses of a joint election to certain school districts.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-02 - Effective immediately [HB2778 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2778-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2778 |
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relating to the allocation of expenses of a joint election to | ||
certain school districts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 11.0581(e), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(e) The joint election agreement allocating expenses as | ||
provided by Section 271.004, Election Code, must provide that a | ||
school district is responsible only for the proportion of election | ||
expenses that corresponds to the proportion that the number of | ||
registered voters in the school district bears to the total number | ||
of registered voters in all political subdivisions participating in | ||
the joint election. This subsection applies only to a school | ||
district: | ||
(1) that has territory located in at least four | ||
counties, each of which has a population of less than 55,000 | ||
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(2) no part of which is located in a municipality. | ||
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, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2778 was passed by the House on April | ||
12, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2778 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
20, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |