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        |  | 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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        |  | ______________________________ | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | 
      
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        |  | I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1226 passed the Senate on | 
      
        |  | April 7, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | Secretary of the Senate | 
      
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        |  | I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1226 passed the House on | 
      
        |  | April 21, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 145, Nays 0, one | 
      
        |  | present not voting. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | Chief Clerk of the House | 
      
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        |  | Approved: | 
      
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        |  | Governor |