SRC-TAG S.B. 315 78(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 315
78R820 JSA-DBy: Hinojosa
Subcommittee on Higher Education
4/16/2003
As Filed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Currently, Del Mar Community College, in Nueces County, serves more than
1800 students outside its taxing district, which is in five counties, yet
only gets the property taxes from a portion of Nueces County.  As
proposed, S.B. 315 expands the taxing district for Del Mar Community
College to cover its service area which is Nueces, San Partricio, Kleberg,
Aransas, and Kenedy counties, if a majority of registered voters in those
areas to be annexed vote for the expansion in a general election. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to
a state officer, institution, or agency. 
  
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Chapter 130D, Education Code, by adding Section
130.0661, as follows: 

Sec.  130.0661.  ANNEXATION BY CERTAIN JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICTS OF
TERRITORY LOCATED IN SERVICE AREA.  (a)  Provides that this section
applies only to a junior college district with territory which meets
certain requirements.  

(b)  Authorizes a junior college as described by this section to annex for
junior college purposes territory that is contiguous to the district and
is located entirely within the district's service area established by
Subchapter J.  

(c)  Authorizes the governing body of a  junior college district that
meets the requirements under Subsection (d), upon presentation of a
petition for annexation of the territory,  to order an election within its
entire district territory to decide whether to change the boundaries of
the district to include the proposed territory. Requires the order to meet
certain requirements. 

(d)  Requires a petition submitted under Subsection (c) to meet certain
requirements. 

(e)  Requires the printed election ballot to allow the voters to vote for
or against the proposition: "Annexation of the following territory to the
_______ (with the blank filled in with the name of the junior college
district): ________"  
(with the blank filled in with a description of the territory proposed to
be annexed). 

(f)  Provides that the proposition is adopted if approved by a majority of
the votes cast at the election. 

(g)  Requires the governing body of the junior college district to enter
an order stating that the territory is annexed to the district for junior
college purposes, if the proposition is adopted.  Requires the governing
body, if it is elected from singlemember districts, to assign the annexed
territory to one or more of those single districts contiguous to the
annexed territory and to make any other appropriate  changes to those
districts in the order or in a subsequent order, prior to the next
election for members of the governing body. 

(h)  Provides that the annexation of territory and any change resulting in
the single-member districts from which members of the governing are
elected does not affect the term of a  member of the governing body
serving on the date the annexation or redistricting takes effect.  

(i)  Prohibits the same junior college district,  if the proposition to
annex the territory is not adopted at the election, from holding another
election to annex any portion of the same territory, before the first
anniversary date of the election on the proposition.    

(j)  Prohibits a junior college district from annexing territory under
this section that is located within the boundaries of another junior
college district. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2003.