76R11272 JSA-D
By Salinas, Cuellar H.B. No. 1346
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1346:
By Oliveira C.S.H.B. No. 1346
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the adoption of a junior college branch campus
1-3 maintenance tax by certain counties.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 130.087(b), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) On presentation of a petition for an election to
1-8 authorize a junior college district branch campus maintenance tax
1-9 signed by not fewer than five percent of the qualified voters of
1-10 the jurisdiction in which the proposed tax is to be levied, the
1-11 governing body of the school district or county, as applicable,
1-12 shall determine the legality and the genuineness of the petition
1-13 and, if it is determined to be legal and genuine, forward the
1-14 petition to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
1-15 [Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System]. The
1-16 governing body of a county with a population of 50,000 or less, on
1-17 completion of a needs assessment analysis showing adequate need and
1-18 on approval by the coordinating board, on its own motion and
1-19 without the presentation of a petition, may propose an election to
1-20 authorize a branch campus maintenance tax.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.