Bill Text: TX HB2194 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the board of trustees of the Weatherford Junior College District.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-22 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2194 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2194-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2194 |
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relating to the board of trustees of the Weatherford Junior College | ||
District. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 130, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 130.0828 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 130.0828. ADDITIONAL TRUSTEES FOR WEATHERFORD JUNIOR | ||
COLLEGE DISTRICT. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, in addition | ||
to the members of the board of trustees of the Weatherford Junior | ||
College District elected or appointed under other provisions of | ||
this subchapter, the commissioners court of each county in which a | ||
branch campus of the district is located and that imposed a branch | ||
campus maintenance tax under Section 130.253 on September 1, 2017, | ||
shall appoint one member to serve on the district's board of | ||
trustees. | ||
(b) Members of the board of trustees appointed under this | ||
section serve two-year terms and may be appointed to serve | ||
successive terms. The commissioners court shall appoint initial | ||
members to serve a term beginning December 1, 2017. | ||
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), a member of the | ||
board of trustees appointed under this section may participate in | ||
the decision-making of the board to the same extent as any other | ||
member of the board, including by voting on any budget that affects | ||
the entire district. | ||
(d) A member of the board of trustees appointed under this | ||
section: | ||
(1) may not participate in the decision-making of the | ||
board in matters related to: | ||
(A) the imposition of a tax; or | ||
(B) an issue that only affects a campus located | ||
in the junior college district; | ||
(2) is not counted for purposes of determining whether | ||
a quorum of the board is present for the purpose of Subdivision (1); | ||
and | ||
(3) may not serve as an officer of the board of | ||
trustees. | ||
(e) Unless this section is continued in effect by the | ||
legislature, this section expires on December 1, 2027. | ||
SECTION 2. The commissioners court of each county to which | ||
Section 130.0828, Education Code, as added by this Act, applies | ||
shall appoint the initial members of the board of trustees of the | ||
Weatherford Junior College District under that section not later | ||
than November 30, 2017. | ||
SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY. (a) It is the intent of the | ||
legislature that every provision, section, subsection, sentence, | ||
clause, phrase, and word in this Act, and every application of the | ||
provisions in this Act to each local law, are severable from each | ||
other. All constitutionally valid and lawful applications of this | ||
Act shall be severed from an application that a court finds to be | ||
invalid, leaving the valid applications in force because it is the | ||
legislature's intent and priority that the valid applications be | ||
allowed to stand alone. | ||
(b) A court may not decline to enforce the severability | ||
requirements in this Act on the ground that the enforcement of the | ||
severability requirements would be contrary to legislative intent. | ||
The legislature hereby declares that it intends for the | ||
severability requirements of this Act to be enforced as written, | ||
without any exceptions. | ||
(c) A court may not decline to enforce the severability | ||
requirements of this Act on the ground that the Act's provisions or | ||
applications are essentially and inseparably connected. The | ||
legislature hereby declares that it intends for the severability | ||
requirements of this Act to be enforced without regard to whether | ||
this Act's provisions or applications are essentially and | ||
inseparably connected. | ||
(d) If a final court order or judgment finds that the | ||
composition of the board of trustees of the Weatherford Junior | ||
College District as composed under this Act is invalid, the | ||
court-ordered remedy shall require the appointment of members of | ||
the board of trustees by the commissioners court of each county in | ||
which a branch campus of the district is located in the manner | ||
described by Section 130.0828, Education Code, as added by this | ||
Act, so that the composition of the board of trustees complies with | ||
applicable law. | ||
(e) Section 311.032(a), Government Code, applies to this | ||
Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2194 was passed by the House on April | ||
20, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2194 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
10, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 25, Nays 5. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |