TITLE: Relating to the establishment of a junior college by certain independent school districts.

SUMMARY: Relating to the establishment of a junior college by certain independent school districts.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT 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 [In] order for any territorial unit set out in 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.