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               AN ACT
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            relating to a campus of the Texas State Technical College System  | 
         
         
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            located in Comal County and Guadalupe 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 located in Fort Bend County; | 
         
         
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                         (7)  a campus located in the city of Red Oak in Ellis  | 
         
         
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            County; [and] | 
         
         
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                         (8)  a campus that operates as a collective unit of one  | 
         
         
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            or more locations in Comal County and Guadalupe County; and | 
         
         
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                         (9)  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, 2023. | 
         
         
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               President of the Senate | 
            Speaker of the House      | 
         
         
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                   I certify that H.B. No. 4997 was passed by the House on April  | 
         
         
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            20, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 123, Nays 23, 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. 4997 was passed by the Senate on May  | 
         
         
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            23, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 1. | 
         
         
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            Secretary of the Senate     | 
         
         
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            APPROVED:  _____________________ | 
         
         
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                             Governor        |