By: Hegar S.B. No. 1226
(In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2011; March 16, 2011, read
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
March 28, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8,
Nays 0; March 28, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the ballot language for junior college district
annexation elections.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (g), Section 130.065, Education Code,
is amended to read as follows:
(g) The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or
against the proposition: "Approving the annexation by the
_________ (name of junior college district) ["Annexation] of the
following territory [for junior college purposes]: __________
(with[", with] the blank filled in with a description of the
territory proposed for annexation), and authorizing the imposition
of an ad valorem tax for junior college purposes, which is currently
set at a rate of ____________ (with the blank filled in with the ad
valorem tax rate of the district for the current year or, if that
rate has not been adopted, the tax rate for the preceding year) per
$100 valuation of taxable property."[.]
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to the ballot for an election ordered to be held on or after the
effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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