By Pitts                                              H.B. No. 1869
         76R6231 JSA-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the annexation of territory to a public junior college
 1-3     district.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 130.063, Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 130.063.  EXTENSION OF JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT
 1-8     BOUNDARIES FOR JUNIOR COLLEGE PURPOSES ONLY.  Territory may be
 1-9     annexed to the junior college district for junior college purposes
1-10     only, by either contract or election, if[:]
1-11                 [(1)]  the territory:
1-12                 (1)  consists of a school district or part of a school
1-13     district or a county or part of a county; and
1-14                 (2)  [that] is adjacent to the junior college
1-15     district[;]  or located in the service area of the district
1-16     established under  Subchapter J
1-17                 [(2)  the territory consists of a school district or
1-18     part of a school district and:]
1-19                       [(A)  is not contiguous with any junior college
1-20     district;]
1-21                       [(B)  is not more than five miles from the
1-22     annexing junior college district at its closest point; and]
1-23                       [(C)  is located in the same county as the
1-24     annexing junior college district and the county has a population of
 2-1     1,500,000 or more].
 2-2           SECTION 2.  Section 130.066(a), Education Code, is amended to
 2-3     read as follows:
 2-4           (a)  Any territory may be included within the boundaries of a
 2-5     junior college district, herein called "district," for junior
 2-6     college purposes, in the manner hereinafter specified; provided,
 2-7     the territory to be included is:
 2-8                 (1)  contiguous to the district in which such territory
 2-9     is to be included; or
2-10                 (2)  located in the service area of the district
2-11     established under Subchapter J [and has been laid out by the
2-12     Coordinating Board, Texas  College and University System, as a
2-13     service area for assisting junior colleges].
2-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-20     passage, and it is so enacted.