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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