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79S10224 JRJ-D
By: Callegari H.B. No. 55
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the requirements for a junior college district to annex
territory by election.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 130.065(a), Education Code, as amended
by Section 5, H.B. No. 2221, Acts of the 79th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2005, as effective June 18, 2005, is amended to read as
follows:
(a) On presentation to the governing board of a junior
college district of a petition proposing the annexation of
territory to the district, the governing board may call an election
on the question of annexing the territory. The petition must:
(1) contain an accurate description of the territory
proposed for annexation; and
(2) be signed by at least 500 [a number of] registered
voters of [in] the territory proposed to be annexed [equal to at
least five percent of the registered voters in that territory as of
the most recent general election for state and county officers].
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
130.065(a), Education Code, applies only to a petition proposing
the annexation of territory by a junior college district that is
presented to the governing board of the district on or after the
effective date of this Act. A petition presented to the governing
board before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law
in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the
former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. 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.