78S30780 KEL-D

By:  Bonnen                                                       H.B. No. 79 



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the annexation of territory to a public junior college 
district.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 130.063(a), Education Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	(a)  Territory may be annexed to the junior college district 
for junior college purposes only, by either contract or election, 
if:
		(1)  the territory:                                                    
			(A) [(1)]  consists of a school district or part 
of a school district or a county or part of a county;  and
			(B) [(2)]  is adjacent to the junior college 
district or located in the service area of the district established 
under Subchapter J; and
		(2)  for any territory located in the service area of 
another junior college district, the governing board of the other 
junior college district, not earlier than one year before the date 
the annexation takes effect, approves the annexation of the 
applicable territory.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the 
legislative session.