| COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES |
| A person elected or appointed to fill a vacancy on a junior college district’s board of trustees must perform the duties of office until his or her successor is duly qualified | GA-0907 |
| Accrual of penalty and interest on delinquent ad valorem taxes after county purchases real property | GA-0973 |
| Acquisition of property from Federal Lands to Parks Program | KP-0236 |
| Admissions, financial aid, scholarships, recruitment and retention, permissibility of programs that are not race-neutral (Withdrawn by Tex. Att'y Gen. Op. No. JC-0107 (1999)) | LO97-001 |
| Allow a court to determine whether a board member vacated his position, depending on the facts of the case and the circumstances surrounding any particular litigation, an application for a writ of quo warranto, a declaratory judgment, or an injunction might | GA-0907 |
| Annexation election without a voter petition, section 130.068(a)-(b) of the Texas Education Code authorizes under specified circumstance the governing board of a junior college district to call or order | GA-0452 |
| Annexation election, under chapter 130 of the Texas Education Code a junior college district may not conduct annexation election where territory includes more than one school district or county | GA-0453 |
| Complaints about religious institutions’ secular programs of study, the Higher Education Coordinating Board may handle | GA-0902 |
| Delinquent local maintenance taxes, governing body of junior college has authority to pledge as security for loan | DM-0178 |
| Disannexation of portion of community college district requires specific statutory authorization | JC-0262 |
| Disannexation, school district's authority to dissolve its participation in junior college district | DM-0297 |
| Dual office holding by individual simultaneously serving as member of the board of directors of the Agua Special Utility District and as a member of the board of trustees of South Texas College | GA-0786 |
| Economic development corporation, authority to contribute funds to public junior college center | LO97-061 |
| Fire science courses offered at institutions of higher education, "fire science" is a technical term referring to courses that fall within a designated fire science curriculum as well as courses primarily related to fire service, emergency medicine, emergency management, or public administration regardless of whether those courses fall within the curriculum designed as "fire science" | GA-0397 |
| Funds donated to junior college for scholarships are not general college assets, and hence consolidation with other scholarships held by nonprofit foundation does not implicate constitutional restriction on gift or grant of public money to private entity | JC-0138 |
| Funds donated to junior college for scholarships, because impressed with charitable trust, may be consolidated with funds held by private nonprofit foundation through court-proceeding substituting trustees of nonprofit for trustees of junior college, provided nature and character of funds remain the same | JC-0138 |
| Joint-credit courses to private school students, United States Constitution does not prohibit public junior college from offering | JC-0013 |
| Junior college districts, under Education Code chapter 130, junior college districts are "school districts" within the meaning of Texas Constitution article VII, section 3 | GA-0984 |
| Land purchased by community college is not "school land" within article VII, section 6 of Texas Constitution; may be sold or leased to private foundation only if particular use is a condition of sale | LO97-076 |
| Liability insurance required to cover tort claims arising from a college district’s operation of a child-care center, whether purchase would violate article III, section 52(a) of the Texas Constitution | GA-0830 |
| Meeting of governing board of single institution of higher education, special notice provision | LO96-016 |
| Private school students, public junior college may not at present offer joint-credit courses to | JC-0013 |
| Proceeds of loan secured by delinquent local maintenance taxes of junior college district may only be used for maintenance purposes | DM-0178 |
| Purchase of insurance contracts using designated broker of record | JC-0205 |
| Purchasing requirements in section 44.031 of Education Code apply to community, junior, and regional college districts (Superseded by statute as noted in Tex. Att'y Gen. Op. No. JC-0037 (1999)) | DM-0387 |
| Real property lease, junior college district's authority to enter into long-term lease of campus land with religious organization that would construct student center, chapel, and other facilities | GA-0252 |
| School district's expenditure for a scholarship program under Texas Constitution article III, section 52(a) | KP-0204 |
| Service area, a junior college district’s statutorily defined service area is not extended when it provides services outside that area | GA-0314 |
| Tax rate, a community college district may not voluntarily reduce adopted tax rate in same tax year absent express statutory authority | JC-0360 |
| Trustee barred from simultaneously serving as board member of municipal utility district where geographical boundaries overlap and both have taxing authority | GA-0032 |
| Trustee election, applicability of Election Code procedures for electing unopposed candidates | LO96-069 |
| Trustee of junior college not barred from simultaneously serving as municipal judge | JC-0216 |
| With regard to the language of ballot propositions about voter approval of bonds and the imposition of taxes, subsection 52.072(e) of the Election Code applies to elections governed by section 130.037 of the Education Code | GA-0922 |
| Administration and Administrators |
| A junior or community college may not categorically prohibit concealed handguns from campus locations due to the presence of minors. | KP-0120 |
| Although unnecessary within context of Government Code section 411.2031(d-1), a junior college district board of trustee rule authorizing concealed handguns in its open meetings would primarily serve as means of affirming or publicizing license holder's right to carry the concealed handgun into the open meeting held on the institution's campus. | KP-0167 |
| Appointing power, community college district board may not appoint a member of the board to office of interim chancellor | LO92-008 |
| Appraisal review board, regent of junior college district may not also serve on if junior college district within jurisdiction of review board | LO92-074 |
| Attorney general opinions, junior college district trustees are not authorized requestors of | DM-0020 |
| Incompatibility of simultaneous service as college trustee and county commissioner | KP-0119 |
| The community college system must determine, in good faith and subject to review for abuse of discretion, whether the reimbursement expenditure is primarily for a college system purpose and not merely for the trustee's personal interest and that the quo warranto proceeding involved actions taken by the trustee that were within the scope of his official duties. | KP-0040 |
| Training requirements for trustees of junior college, Higher Education Coordinating Board may not mandate | DM-0020 |
| Trustee of county-wide junior college district prohibited by common-law incompatibility doctrine from serving on governing board of city lying within boundaries of district | LO90-052 |
| Under Government Code subsection 411.2031(d-1), the president or other chief executive officer of the junior or community college may establish rules, regulations, and other provisions regarding the carrying of concealed handguns by license holders that accommodate the unique nature of a particular campus provided that such rules, regulations, or provisions do not generally prohibit or have the effect of generally prohibiting license holders from carrying concealed handguns on the campus of the institution. | KP-0120 |
| Employee Compensation, Benefits, and Reimbursement of Expenses |
| Charges not yet incurred, college may not contract with employee to deduct from salary | LO96-051 |
| Optional Retirement Program, construction and legality of appropriations act rider decreasing state contribution for certain employees | LO96-133 |
| Teacher Retirement System and optional retirement program, constitutionality of different rates of state contribution to | LO93-048 |
| Employees |
| Curriculum coordinator of educational consortium, whether an employee of member community college may serve as | LO96-052 |
| Dual employment at state university and public junior college, no bar to | LO94-080 |
| Municipal utility district board, part-time community college instructor may be compensated for service as member of | GA-0428 |
| Nepotism law prohibits junior college from employing instructor related within a prohibited degree to a member of its governing board | GA-0415 |
| Nepotism, college may not hire nephew of college trustee because, like school district board of trustees, board retains authority to hire employees even if it is not generally involved in hiring decisions | LO92-043 |
| Part-time peace officers employed by junior college district, applicability of Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies Act to | LO97-111 |
| Part-time peace officers employed by junior college district, authority of | LO97-111 |
| Tuition and Fees |
| Fire fighters, junior college district may not charge tuition to, regardless of residence | LO90-083 |
| Houston Community College's "general fee" is not tuition | GA-0397 |
| Mandatory technology fee, whether community college district may charge | DM-0450 |
| Public junior college's charges are what the college designates them to be | GA-0397 |
| Tuition and laboratory fees at public junior colleges and four-year colleges and universities, a fire fighter is exempt from paying | GA-0397 |
| Tuition for fire fighters enrolled in fire science courses, fire fighter seeking exemption from tuition need not be pursuing a degree in fire science and may already have a degree in fire science
| GA-0397 |
