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SECTION 1. Subchapter E,
Chapter 130, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 130.0828 to read
as follows:
Sec. 130.0828. ADDITIONAL
TRUSTEES FOR WEATHERFORD JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT. (a) Notwithstanding any
other law, in addition to the members of the board of trustees of the
Weatherford Junior College District elected or appointed under other
provisions of this subchapter, the commissioners court of each county in
which a branch campus of the district is located and that imposes a branch campus maintenance tax
under Section 130.253 shall appoint two
members to serve on the district's board of trustees.
(b) Members of the board
of trustees appointed under this section serve two-year terms and may be
appointed to serve successive terms. The commissioners court shall appoint
initial members to serve a term beginning December 1, 2017.
(c) Except as provided by
Subsection (d), a member of the board of trustees appointed under this
section may participate in the decision-making of the board to the same
extent as any other member of the board, including by voting on any budget
that affects the entire district.
(d) A member of the board
of trustees appointed under this section:
(1) may not participate in
the decision-making of the board in matters related to:
(A) the imposition of a
tax; or
(B) an issue that only
affects a campus located in the junior college district;
(2) is not counted for
purposes of determining whether a quorum of the board is present for the
purpose of Subdivision (1); and
(3) may not serve as an
officer of the board of trustees.
(e) Unless this section is
continued in effect by the legislature, this section expires on December 1,
2027.
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SECTION 1. Subchapter E,
Chapter 130, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 130.0828 to read
as follows:
Sec. 130.0828. ADDITIONAL
TRUSTEES FOR WEATHERFORD JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT. (a) Notwithstanding any
other law, in addition to the members of the board of trustees of the
Weatherford Junior College District elected or appointed under other
provisions of this subchapter, the commissioners court of each county in
which a branch campus of the district is located and that imposed a branch campus maintenance tax
under Section 130.253 on September 1,
2017, shall appoint one member
to serve on the district's board of trustees.
(b) Members of the board
of trustees appointed under this section serve two-year terms and may be
appointed to serve successive terms. The commissioners court shall appoint
initial members to serve a term beginning December 1, 2017.
(c) Except as provided by
Subsection (d), a member of the board of trustees appointed under this
section may participate in the decision-making of the board to the same
extent as any other member of the board, including by voting on any budget
that affects the entire district.
(d) A member of the board
of trustees appointed under this section:
(1) may not participate in
the decision-making of the board in matters related to:
(A) the imposition of a
tax; or
(B) an issue that only
affects a campus located in the junior college district;
(2) is not counted for
purposes of determining whether a quorum of the board is present for the
purpose of Subdivision (1); and
(3) may not serve as an
officer of the board of trustees.
(e) Unless this section is
continued in effect by the legislature, this section expires on December 1,
2027.
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SECTION 2. The commissioners
court of each county to which Section 130.0828, Education Code, as added by
this Act, applies shall appoint the initial members of the board of trustees
of the Weatherford Junior College District under that section not later
than November 30, 2017.
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SECTION 2. Same as introduced
version.
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No
equivalent provision.
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SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY. (a) It
is the intent of the legislature that every provision, section, subsection,
sentence, clause, phrase, and word in this Act, and every application of
the provisions in this Act to each local law, are severable from each
other. All constitutionally valid and lawful applications of this Act shall
be severed from an application that a court finds to be invalid, leaving
the valid applications in force because it is the legislature's intent and
priority that the valid applications be allowed to stand alone.
(b) A court may not decline
to enforce the severability requirements in this Act on the ground that the
enforcement of the severability requirements would be contrary to
legislative intent. The legislature hereby declares that it intends for the
severability requirements of this Act to be enforced as written, without
any exceptions.
(c) A court may not decline
to enforce the severability requirements of this Act on the ground that the
Act's provisions or applications are essentially and inseparably connected.
The legislature hereby declares that it intends for the severability
requirements of this Act to be enforced without regard to whether this
Act's provisions or applications are essentially and inseparably connected.
(d) If a final court order or
judgment finds that the composition of the board of trustees of the
Weatherford Junior College District as composed under this Act is invalid,
the court-ordered remedy shall require the appointment of members of the
board of trustees by the commissioners court of each county in which a
branch campus of the district is located in the manner described by Section
130.0828, Education Code, as added by this Act, so that the composition of
the board of trustees complies with applicable law.
(e) Section 311.032(a),
Government Code, applies to this Act.
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