Texas Education Code
§ 13.054 — ACADEMICALLY UNACCEPTABLE SCHOOL DISTRICTS
ED § 13.054Title 2. PUBLIC EDUCATION · Part C. LOCAL ORGANIZATION AND GOVERNANCE · Ch. 13. CREATION, CONSOLIDATION, AND ABOLITION OF A DISTRICT · Art. B. DETACHMENT; ANNEXATION
Statute text
View on source(a)The commissioner by order may annex to one or more adjoining districts a school district that has been rated as academically unacceptable for a period of two years.
(b)The governing board of a district to which territory of an academically unacceptable district is annexed is the governing board for the new district.
(c)The order of the commissioner shall define by legal boundary description the territory of the new district as enlarged.
(d)Title to the real property of the academically unacceptable district vests in the district to which the property is annexed. Each district to which territory is annexed assumes and is liable for any portion of the academically unacceptable district's indebtedness that is allocated to the receiving district under Section 13.004.
(e)Before the commissioner orders an annexation under this section, the commissioner shall investigate the educational and financial impact of the annexation on the receiving district. The commissioner may order the annexation only if the commissioner finds that the annexation will not substantially impair the ability of the receiving district to educate the students located in the district before the annexation and to meet its financial obligations incurred before the annexation.
(f)For five years beginning with the school year in which the annexation occurs, a school district shall receive additional funding under this subsection or Subsection (h). The amount of funding shall be determined by multiplying the lesser of the enlarged district's local fund assignment computed under Section 48.256 or the enlarged district's total cost of tier one by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of students residing in the territory annexed to the receiving district preceding the date of the annexation and the denominator of which is the number of students residing in the district as enlarged on the date of the annexation, and multiplying the resulting product by the quotient of the enlarged district's maximum compressed tax rate, as determined under Section 48.2551, for the current school year divided by the receiving district's maximum compressed tax rate, as determined under Section 48.2551, for the year in which the annexation occurred.
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Legislative history
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 425 (S.B. 1353), Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2017. Acts 2017, 85th Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 8 (H.B. 21), Sec. 2, eff. November 14, 2017. Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.003, eff. September 1, 2019. Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1A.001, eff. September 1, 2020. Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 3.011, eff. September 1, 2019.