By Delisi H.B. No. 1460
75R3075 CAG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the name of a public junior or community college.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
1-5 amended by adding Section 130.0051 to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 130.0051. OTHER CHANGE OF NAME BY JUNIOR COLLEGE
1-7 DISTRICT. (a) The board of trustees of a junior college district
1-8 by resolution may change the name of the district or a college
1-9 within the district by eliminating the words "community" or
1-10 "junior" from the name of the district or college.
1-11 (b) The board of trustees shall file with the Texas Higher
1-12 Education Coordinating Board a copy of a resolution adopted under
1-13 Subsection (a) that is certified by the secretary of the board of
1-14 trustees. The name change is effective on the date the resolution
1-15 is filed with the coordinating board. After a name change is filed,
1-16 the college or district shall use the new name in all official
1-17 actions, communications, or records.
1-18 SECTION 2. Section 130.082(c), Education Code, is amended to
1-19 read as follows:
1-20 (c) The official name of a junior college district shall be
1-21 the "__________ Junior College District" unless the board of
1-22 trustees of the district elects to call the district a community
1-23 college district, in which event the official name of the junior
1-24 college district shall be the "________ Community College
2-1 District." The [and the] board shall designate an appropriate and
2-2 locally pertinent descriptive word or words to be filled in the
2-3 appropriate [aforesaid] blank (and may change such designation when
2-4 deemed advisable) by resolution or order; provided that no two
2-5 districts shall have the same or substantially similar names. A
2-6 district may change its name under Section 130.005 or 130.0051. All
2-7 resolutions or orders designating or changing names shall be filed
2-8 immediately with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board[,
2-9 Texas College and University System,] and the first name filed
2-10 shall have priority, and the district shall be advised of any
2-11 previous filing of any identical or substantially similar name.
2-12 The name of any junior college district existing on September 1,
2-13 1997 [the effective date of this code] shall remain the same until
2-14 and unless it is changed under this chapter [pursuant hereto], and
2-15 any change in the name of a junior college district made before
2-16 that date is validated and is deemed to have been properly made.
2-17 Another [no other] district may not [shall] use the name of any
2-18 [such existing] district whose name change is validated under this
2-19 subsection.
2-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.