83R2823 JRJ-D
By: Huberty H.B. No. 1251
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the service areas of certain junior college districts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter J, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 130.1615 to read as follows:
Sec. 130.1615. JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA
TERRITORY. A reassignment of territory from the service area of one
junior college district to the service area of another junior
college district made by an amendment to this subchapter enacted on
or after September 1, 2013, does not include territory located
within the boundaries of the taxing district of the junior college
district from whose service area the territory is removed unless
the Act making the reassignment expressly provides that the
reassigned territory includes territory located within the
boundaries of the taxing district of that junior college district.
SECTION 2. Section 130.186, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 130.186. LEE COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA. The
service area of the Lee College District includes the territory
within:
(1) the Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School
District; and
(2) the Crosby, Dayton, Liberty, Barbers Hill,
Anahuac, [Huffman,] Devers, East Chambers, Hardin, and
Hull-Daisetta independent school districts.
SECTION 3. Section 130.191, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 130.191. LONE STAR COLLEGE SYSTEM DISTRICT SERVICE
AREA. The service area of the Lone Star College System District
includes the territory within:
(1) the Aldine, Conroe, Cypress-Fairbanks, Huffman,
Humble, New Caney, Spring, Tomball, Magnolia, Willis, Montgomery,
Splendora, Cleveland, Tarkington, and Klein independent school
districts; and
(2) the Huntsville and New Waverly independent school
districts in Walker County.
SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act applies
beginning with the 2013 fall semester, except that during the
2013-2014 academic year the Lee College District may continue to
treat the area removed by this Act from the district's service area
as if the area were still in the district's service area as
necessary to avoid an unreasonable interruption of junior college
services in the area.
SECTION 5. 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. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2013.