Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 315 amends the Education Code to allow a junior college district that encompasses all or part of a coastal municipality of 250,000 or more residents and that has a service area that includes four or more whole counties to annex territory that is adjacent to the district and located entirely within the district's service area if the district receives a petition requesting the annexation from a specified number of voters residing in the territory to be annexed and the annexation is approved by a majority of the votes cast in an election ordered by the district's governing body in the area comprising the district and the territory to be annexed. The bill sets forth requirements for a valid petition, the order calling for an election, the ballot language, and, if the district's governing body is elected from single-member districts, the assignment of the annexed territory to one or more of those districts. If the proposal is not approved, the bill prohibits calling another election on the matter before the first anniversary of the earlier election. The bill also prohibits the annexation of territory that lies within the boundaries of another junior college district.

Reason given for veto: Senate Bill No. 315 would allow one junior college to alter current state requirements for annexing counties into its taxing district.