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. 1-29 * * * * *