Bill Text: TX SB477 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the allocation to a school district of the expenses of a joint election.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-14 - Referred to State Affairs [SB477 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB477-Introduced.html
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| By: Patrick | S.B. No. 477 | |
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| relating to the allocation to a school district of the expenses of a | ||
| joint election. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 11.0581, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (e) 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. | ||
| 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, 2011. | ||
