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        relating to the creation of a campus of the Texas State Technical  | 
      
      
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        College System in Ellis County. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Section 135.02(a), Education Code, is amended to  | 
      
      
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        read as follows: | 
      
      
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               (a)  The Texas State Technical College System is composed of: | 
      
      
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                     (1)  a system office located in the city of Waco in  | 
      
      
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        McLennan County; | 
      
      
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                     (2)  a campus located in the city of Harlingen in  | 
      
      
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        Cameron County; | 
      
      
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                     (3)  a campus serving West Texas that operates as a  | 
      
      
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        collective unit of strategically positioned permanent locations in  | 
      
      
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        the city of Sweetwater in Nolan County, the city of Abilene in  | 
      
      
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        Taylor County, the city of Brownwood in Brown County, and the city  | 
      
      
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        of Breckenridge in Stephens County; | 
      
      
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                     (4)  a campus located in the city of Marshall in  | 
      
      
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        Harrison County; | 
      
      
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                     (5)  a campus located in the city of Waco in McLennan  | 
      
      
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        County; | 
      
      
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                     (6)  a campus [an extension center] located in the city  | 
      
      
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        of Red Oak in Ellis County; and | 
      
      
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                     (7)  campuses assigned to the system from time to time  | 
      
      
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        by specific legislative Act. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives  | 
      
      
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        a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as  | 
      
      
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        provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this  | 
      
      
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        Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this  | 
      
      
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        Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | 
      
      
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           President of the Senate | 
        Speaker of the House      | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 1051 was passed by the House on May 1,  | 
      
      
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        2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 135, Nays 2, 2 present, not  | 
      
      
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        voting. | 
      
      
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        Chief Clerk of the House    | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 1051 was passed by the Senate on May  | 
      
      
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        11, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
      
      
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        Secretary of the Senate     | 
      
      
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        APPROVED:  _____________________ | 
      
      
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                         Governor        |