1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the expansion of the areas where proceeds of the branch

 1-3     campus maintenance tax may be used.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 130.087(k), Education Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           (k)  The proceeds of the junior college district branch

 1-8     campus maintenance tax may be used to operate and maintain a junior

 1-9     college district branch campus and to support its programs and

1-10     services only in:

1-11                 (1)  the area of the jurisdiction levying the junior

1-12     college district branch campus maintenance tax; or

1-13                 (2)  the area of a jurisdiction contiguous to the

1-14     jurisdiction levying the tax that also levies a junior college

1-15     district branch campus maintenance tax to operate, maintain, and

1-16     support the same junior college district branch campus.

1-17           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-18           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 722 was passed by the House on April

         11, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 722 was passed by the Senate on May

         13, 1997, by a viva-voce vote.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor