TX HB4156

Transfers authority for creating new school districts through detachment from county commissioners courts to the State Board of Education, which would now receive petitions, hold validity hearings, and adopt rules creating new districts

Increases the petition signature requirement from 10% to 20% of registered voters residing in each existing district from which territory would be detached

Eliminates the option for local school boards to initiate detachment through their own resolution, requiring all detachment proposals to proceed via voter petition

Requires majority approval in both the territory to be detached and the remaining territory of each affected district for a new district to be created

Mandates the State Board of Education to equitably allocate indebtedness and personal property between the original and new districts, with real property in the detached territory automatically transferring to the new district