1-1 By: Salinas, Cuellar (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 1346
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
1-3 April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; May 7, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0;
1-6 May 7, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1346 By: Zaffirini
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the adoption of a junior college branch campus
1-11 maintenance tax by certain counties.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Section 130.087(b), Education Code, is amended to
1-14 read as follows:
1-15 (b) On presentation of a petition for an election to
1-16 authorize a junior college district branch campus maintenance tax
1-17 signed by not fewer than five percent of the qualified voters of
1-18 the jurisdiction in which the proposed tax is to be levied, the
1-19 governing body of the school district or county, as applicable,
1-20 shall determine the legality and the genuineness of the petition
1-21 and, if it is determined to be legal and genuine, forward the
1-22 petition to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board[, Texas
1-23 College and University System]. The governing body of a county
1-24 with a population of 150,000 or less, on completion of a needs
1-25 assessment analysis showing adequate need and on approval by the
1-26 coordinating board, on its own motion and without the presentation
1-27 of a petition, may propose an election to authorize a branch campus
1-28 maintenance tax.
1-29 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-34 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-35 passage, and it is so enacted.
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