Bill Text: TX SB2042 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the board of trustees of the Blinn Junior College District.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (N/A - Dead) 2015-05-06 - Left pending in committee [SB2042 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB2042-Introduced.html
84R12617 JRJ-D | ||
By: Schwertner, Kolkhorst | S.B. No. 2042 |
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relating to the board of trustees of the Blinn 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 130.0827 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 130.0827. ADDITIONAL TRUSTEES FOR BLINN JUNIOR COLLEGE | ||
DISTRICT. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, in addition to the | ||
members of the board of trustees of the Blinn 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 with a student enrollment greater | ||
than 10,000 is located shall appoint two members to serve on the | ||
district's board of trustees. | ||
(b) Members of the board of trustees appointed under this | ||
section serve staggered six-year terms, with the term of one member | ||
expiring on February 1 every three years. | ||
(b-1) In appointing the initial members under this section, | ||
the commissioners court shall designate one of the members to serve | ||
a term expiring February 1, 2018, and the other member to serve a | ||
term expiring February 1, 2021. This subsection expires January 1, | ||
2022. | ||
(c) Members 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 except that members of | ||
the board appointed under this section by the commissioners court | ||
of a county that is not located in the Blinn Junior College | ||
District: | ||
(1) may participate in the decision-making of the | ||
board only in matters not related to the imposition of a tax or the | ||
distribution of revenue raised from a tax; and | ||
(2) are counted for purposes of determining whether a | ||
quorum of the board is present only for the purpose of Subdivision | ||
(1). | ||
SECTION 2. The commissioners court of each county to which | ||
Section 130.0827, Education Code, as added by this Act, applies | ||
shall appoint the initial members of the board of trustees of the | ||
Blinn Junior College District under that section not later than | ||
December 31, 2015. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |