83R2218 KEL-D
By: Estes S.B. No. 1399
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2013.