2023 Texas Statutes › Education Code › Title 3 - Higher Education › Subtitle G - Non-Baccalaureate System › Chapter 130 - Junior College Districts › Subchapter A. General Provisions › Section 130.004. Authorized Types of Public Junior Colleges

Sec. 130.004.  AUTHORIZED TYPES OF PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGES.  (a)  By complying with the provisions of the appropriate following sections of this chapter a public junior college and/or district of any one of the following classifications may be established:
(1)  an independent school district junior college;
(2)  a city junior college;
(3)  a union junior college;
(4)  a county junior college;
(5)  a joint-county junior college;  and
(6)  a public junior college as a part or division of a regional college district.
(b)  As used in this chapter, the two general authorized types of junior colleges are:
(1)  public junior colleges, which must consist of freshman and sophomore college work taught separately or in conjunction with the junior and senior years of high school and the course of study of such work must be submitted to and approved before being offered by the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System;  and
(2)  a junior college division of a regional college, as that type of institution is defined in Subchapter F of this chapter, which operates under the laws applicable to public junior colleges in Texas.
(c)  All junior college districts, whether established, organized, and/or created, or attempted to be established, organized, and/or created, by vote of the people residing in those districts, or by action of the county school boards, or by action of the county judge, or by action of the commissioners courts, or by action of state educational officers or agencies, or by a combination of any two or more of the same, which districts have previously been recognized by either state or county authorities as junior college districts, are hereby validated in all respects as though they had been duly and legally established in the first instance.  Without in any way limiting the generalization of the provisions above,
(1)  all additions of territory to or detachments of territory from such junior college districts are hereby in all things validated, whether the same were accomplished or attempted to be accomplished by action of the county school boards, or by action of the county judge, or by action of the commissioners court, or by action of state educational officers or agencies, or by vote of the people residing in such territory, or by a combination of any two or more of the same;
(2)  the boundary lines of all such junior college districts are hereby in all things validated;  and
(3)  all acts of the governing boards of such junior college districts ordering an election or elections, declaring the results of such elections, levying, attempting, or purporting to levy taxes for and on behalf of such districts, and all bonds issued and now outstanding, and all bonds previously voted but not issued, and all tax elections, bond elections, and bond assumption elections are hereby in all things validated;  all revenue bonds issued and outstanding and all revenue bonds authorized but not yet issued for and on behalf of such districts are hereby in all things validated.
(d)  Subsection (c) of this section shall not apply to any district which has previously been declared invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction of Texas, nor shall it apply to any district which is now involved in litigation in any district court of Texas, the court of civil appeals, or the Supreme Court of Texas, in which litigation the validity of the organization or creation of such district or of the addition of territory to or detachment of territory from such districts is attacked, or to any district involved in proceedings now pending before the coordinating board in which proceedings the validity of the organization or creation of such district or of the addition of territory to or detachment of territory from such district is attacked.
(e)  The establishment of any new public junior college campus within an existing junior college district or the establishment of any new junior college district shall be approved by the Legislative Budget Board if the establishment occurs during a time when the legislature is not in session.  The legislature shall approve the establishment of any new public junior college campus within an existing junior college district or the establishment of any new junior college district if proposed during or within three months prior to a legislative session.
Acts 1969, 61st Leg., p. 2994, ch. 889, Sec. 1.  Renumbered from Education Code Sec. 51.004 by Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3281, ch. 1024, art. 1, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1971.  Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 971, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.