Bill Text: TX SB2246 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the board of trustees of the Weatherford Junior College District.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (N/A - Dead) 2017-04-04 - Referred to Higher Education [SB2246 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB2246-Introduced.html
85R11197 JRJ-D | ||
By: Estes | S.B. No. 2246 |
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relating to the board of trustees of the Weatherford Junior College | ||
District. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
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. | ||
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. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |