Bill Text: TX HB678 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to coordination between school districts and other governmental agencies regarding necessary transportation infrastructure improvements associated with real property owned or proposed to be purchased by school districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-21 - Referred to Public Education [HB678 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB678-Introduced.html
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By: Lucio III | H.B. No. 678 |
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relating to coordination between school districts and other | ||
governmental agencies regarding necessary transportation | ||
infrastructure improvements associated with real property owned or | ||
proposed to be purchased by school districts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 44, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 44.905 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 44.905. COORDINATION WITH OTHER GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES | ||
REGARDING NECESSARY TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE | ||
IMPROVEMENTS. (a) Before a school district may issue bonds or | ||
enter into a contract to construct a facility to be used for any | ||
purpose on real property owned by the district on September 1, 2011, | ||
the board of trustees of the district must hold a joint meeting with | ||
representatives of the Texas Department of Transportation district | ||
office for the departmental district in which the school district's | ||
central administrative office is located and: | ||
(1) the governing body of each municipality in which | ||
or in whose extraterritorial jurisdiction any part of the property | ||
is located; and | ||
(2) the commissioners court of each county in which | ||
any part of the property is located. | ||
(b) A meeting held under Subsection (a) must address, with | ||
respect to each school district facility planned or expected to be | ||
constructed on the real property owned or proposed to be purchased | ||
by the district: | ||
(1) the impact of the facility on traffic and the | ||
transportation infrastructure in the area of the facility; | ||
(2) the cost of any necessary associated | ||
transportation infrastructure improvements; and | ||
(3) each entity that will be responsible for paying | ||
for any necessary associated transportation infrastructure | ||
improvements. | ||
(c) A meeting held under Subsection (a) must be an open | ||
meeting as provided by Chapter 551, Government Code, except that | ||
the meeting may be a closed meeting if: | ||
(1) the meeting involves real property the school | ||
district proposes to purchase; and | ||
(2) the board of trustees would be authorized to | ||
conduct a closed meeting under Section 551.072, Government Code, in | ||
relation to the purchase of the property. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |