Bill Text: TX HB3512 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a junior college by certain independent school districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-04 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3512 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3512-Comm_Sub.html
85R26595 JRJ-D | |||
By: Faircloth | H.B. No. 3512 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3512: | |||
By: Lozano | C.S.H.B. No. 3512 |
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relating to the establishment of a junior college by certain | ||
independent school districts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 130.032, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 130.032. RESTRICTIONS. (a) Except as provided by | ||
Subsection (b), in [ |
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Sections 130.011 and 130.031 of this code to establish the | ||
applicable type of junior college, the proposed district must have | ||
a taxable property valuation of not less than $2.5 billion in the | ||
next preceding year and a total scholastic population of not less | ||
than 15,000 in the next preceding school year. | ||
(b) An independent school district that is located in a | ||
county with a population of less than 40,000 in which no junior | ||
college campus is located and that is adjacent to a county with a | ||
population of more than 3.3 million may establish a junior college | ||
under Section 130.011 if the proposed junior college district has a | ||
taxable property valuation greater than $5 billion in the next | ||
preceding year and a total scholastic population greater than 5,000 | ||
in the next preceding year. | ||
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 September 1, 2017. |