82R10380 JRJ-D
 
  By: Villarreal H.J.R. No. 153
 
 
 
A JOINT RESOLUTION
  proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature
  to pass laws relating to junior college districts, including laws
  for the assessment and collection of taxes by a junior college
  district without the necessity of an election.
         BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article VII, Texas Constitution, is amended by
  adding Section 3-a and amending Section 3-b to read as follows:
         Sec. 3-a.  (a)  The Legislature by general law may provide
  for the formation, management, and control of junior college
  districts.
         (b)  The Legislature by general law may provide for the levy
  and collection of taxes by junior college districts for the
  maintenance and operation of the districts and for the construction
  and equipment of junior college buildings and other capital
  improvements, and may authorize a junior college district to issue
  bonds and other obligations payable from the taxes if approved by
  the qualified voters of the district at an election held for that
  purpose.
         Sec. 3-b.  No tax for the maintenance of public free schools
  voted in any independent school district [and no tax for the
  maintenance of a junior college voted by a junior college
  district], nor any bonds voted in any such district, but unissued,
  shall be abrogated, cancelled or invalidated by change of any kind
  in the boundaries thereof. After any change in boundaries, the
  governing body of any such district, without the necessity of an
  additional election, shall have the power to assess, levy and
  collect ad valorem taxes on all taxable property within the
  boundaries of the district as changed, for the purposes of the
  maintenance of public free schools [or the maintenance of a junior
  college, as the case may be], and the payment of principal of and
  interest on all bonded indebtedness outstanding against, or
  attributable, adjusted or allocated to, such district or any
  territory therein, in the amount, at the rate, or not to exceed the
  rate, and in the manner authorized in the district prior to the
  change in its boundaries, and further in accordance with the laws
  under which all such bonds, respectively, were voted; and such
  governing body also shall have the power, without the necessity of
  an additional election, to sell and deliver any unissued bonds
  voted in the district prior to any such change in boundaries, and to
  assess, levy and collect ad valorem taxes on all taxable property in
  the district as changed, for the payment of principal of and
  interest on such bonds in the manner permitted by the laws under
  which such bonds were voted. In those instances where the
  boundaries of any such independent school district are changed by
  the annexation of, or consolidation with, one or more whole school
  districts, the taxes to be levied for the purposes hereinabove
  authorized may be in the amount or at not to exceed the rate
  theretofore voted in the district having at the time of such change
  the greatest scholastic population according to the latest
  scholastic census and only the unissued bonds of such district
  voted prior to such change, may be subsequently sold and delivered
  and any voted, but unissued, bonds of other school districts
  involved in such annexation or consolidation shall not thereafter
  be issued.
         SECTION 2.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
  submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 8, 2011.
  The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
  proposition: "The constitutional amendment authorizing the
  legislature to pass laws relating to junior college districts,
  including laws for the assessment and collection of taxes by a
  junior college district without the necessity of an election."