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2025 Texas Statutes
Education Code
Title 2 - Public Education
Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management
Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement
Subchapter E. Education of Nonresident Students
Section 49.202. Voter Approval

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TX Educ Code § 49.202 (2025)
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Sec. 49.202. VOTER APPROVAL. (a) After first executing an agreement under this subchapter other than an agreement under Section 49.205, the board of trustees of the district that will be educating nonresident students shall order and conduct an election, in the manner provided by Sections 13.003(d)-(g), to obtain voter approval of the agreement.

(b) The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition: "Authorizing the board of trustees of ________ School District to educate students of other school districts with local tax revenues."

(c) The proposition is approved if the proposition receives a favorable vote of a majority of the votes cast. If the proposition is approved, the agreement executed by the board is ratified, and the board has continuing authority to execute agreements under this subchapter on behalf of the district without further voter approval.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 61, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.

Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Section 41.122 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.055, eff. September 1, 2019.

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