1-1     By:  Pitts (Senate Sponsor - Nelson)                  H.B. No. 1869
 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 6, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 6, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the annexation of territory to a public junior college
 1-9     district.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 130.063, Education Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 130.063.  EXTENSION OF JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT
1-14     BOUNDARIES FOR JUNIOR COLLEGE PURPOSES ONLY.  (a)  Territory may be
1-15     annexed to the junior college district for junior college purposes
1-16     only, by either contract or election, if[:]
1-17                 [(1)]  the territory:
1-18                 (1)  consists of a school district or part of a school
1-19     district or a county or part of a county; and
1-20                 (2)  [that] is adjacent to the junior college
1-21     district[;]  or located in the service area of the district
1-22     established under  Subchapter J
1-23                 [(2)  the territory consists of a school district or
1-24     part of a school district and:]
1-25                       [(A)  is not contiguous with any junior college
1-26     district;]
1-27                       [(B)  is not more than five miles from the
1-28     annexing junior college district at its closest point; and]
1-29                       [(C)  is located in the same county as the
1-30     annexing junior college district and the county has a population of
1-31     1,500,000 or more].
1-32           (b)  A junior college district may not annex territory under
1-33     this section if:
1-34                 (1)  the territory is located in the same county as any
1-35     part of the junior college district; and
1-36                 (2)  a campus of the Texas State Technical College
1-37     System is located within the county and outside the junior college
1-38     district.
1-39           SECTION 2.  Section 130.066(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-40     read as follows:
1-41           (a)  Any territory may be included within the boundaries of a
1-42     junior college district, herein called "district," for junior
1-43     college purposes, in the manner hereinafter specified; provided,
1-44     the territory to be included is:
1-45                 (1)  contiguous to the district in which such territory
1-46     is to be included; or
1-47                 (2)  located in the service area of the district
1-48     established under Subchapter J [and has been laid out by the
1-49     Coordinating Board, Texas  College and University System, as a
1-50     service area for assisting junior colleges].
1-51           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-52     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-53     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-54     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-55     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-56     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-57     passage, and it is so enacted.
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