TITLE: Relating to the use of proceeds from a junior college district branch campus maintenance tax.

SUMMARY: Relating to the use of proceeds from a junior college district branch campus maintenance tax.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to the use of proceeds from a junior college district branch campus maintenance tax. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 130.087(k), Education Code, is amended to read as follows: (k) The proceeds of the junior college district branch campus maintenance tax may be used only as follows: (1) to operate and maintain a junior college district branch campus and [to] support its programs and services in the area of the political subdivision [a jurisdiction] that levied the [levies a junior college district branch campus maintenance] tax;and (2) under an agreement by the applicable junior college district and the political subdivision levying the tax, to make lease payments to the political subdivision for facilities used exclusively by the branch campus that are owned by the political subdivision [to operate, maintain, and support the same junior college district branch campus].SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to the proceeds of a junior college district branch campus maintenance tax levied under Section 130.087, Education Code, without regard to whether imposition of the tax was approved by the voters or the proceeds were derived from taxes imposed before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. SECTION 3. 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.