CS H.B. 722 75(R)BILL ANALYSIS WAYS & MEANS H.B. 722 By: Alexander 3-17-97 Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND Sec. 130.087, Education Code (Branch Campus Maintenance Tax), allows a school district or county to levy a tax in order to maintain a junior college branch campus within its taxing jurisdiction. The law does not deal with the expansion of a branch campus maintenance tax area. Sec. 130.087(k) requires tax monies generated in a branch campus maintenance tax area to be expended to support the branch campus located in that taxing jurisdiction. If a branch campus maintenance tax area exists and a contiguous jurisdiction desires to also pay a maintenance tax to support the existing branch campus, current law does not permit this to occur. At this time, Trinity Valley Community College, its main campus located in Athens, Texas, is the only community college in the state with a branch campus maintenance tax area. PURPOSE This bill allows a taxing jurisdiction contiguous to a jurisdiction that is already levying a branch campus maintenance tax to operate, maintain and support that same campus through the levying of a branch campus maintenance tax. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency or institution. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1.Amends Sec. 130.087(k), Education Code, by adding subsection (k)(2) allowing a taxing jurisdiction contiguous to a jurisdiction already levying a branch campus maintenance tax to also levy a branch campus maintenance tax to operate, maintain and support the same branch campus. SECTION 2.Effective Date: September 1, 1997. SECTION 3.Emergency clause.