H.B. No. 2194

	AN ACT
	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
	_____________________
	Governor