1-1     By:  Alexander (Senate Sponsor - Ogden)                H.B. No. 722

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 1997;

 1-3     April 16, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Education; May 8, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 8, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the expansion of the areas where proceeds of the branch

 1-9     campus maintenance tax may be used.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 130.087(k), Education Code, is amended to

1-12     read as follows:

1-13           (k)  The proceeds of the junior college district branch

1-14     campus maintenance tax may be used to operate and maintain a junior

1-15     college district branch campus and to support its programs and

1-16     services only in:

1-17                 (1)  the area of the jurisdiction levying the junior

1-18     college district branch campus maintenance tax; or

1-19                 (2)  the area of a jurisdiction contiguous to the

1-20     jurisdiction levying the tax that also levies a junior college

1-21     district branch campus maintenance tax to operate, maintain, and

1-22     support the same junior college district branch campus.

1-23           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-28     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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