Bill Text: TX HB2778 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.html
86R7373 SRS-D | ||
By: King of Uvalde | 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. |