Tex. Const. art. VII, § 4B · Article 7. EDUCATION
DONATION OF REAL PROPERTY BY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR HISTORICAL PRESERVATION.
Text — Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
(a) The legislature by general law may authorize the board of trustees of an independent school district to donate district real property and improvements formerly used as a school campus for the purpose of preserving the improvements.
(b) A law enacted under this section must provide that before the board of trustees may make the donation, the board must determine that:
(1) the improvements have historical significance;
(2) the transfer will further the preservation of the improvements; and
(3) at the time of the transfer, the district does not need the real property or improvements for educational purposes.
Notes and commentary — not constitutional text
History
(Added Nov. 6, 2001.)
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CN/htm/CN.7.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 f001d50a169437803ed95ca01d91aaf1ef88466bb6e1950d4059bfce71abd180
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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