By: Kuempel, Isaac (Senate Sponsor - Campbell) H.B. No. 4997

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 24, 2023; May 2, 2023, read first time and referred to Subcommittee on Higher Education; May 21, 2023, reported favorably from Committee on Education by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 21, 2023, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a campus of the Texas State Technical College System located in Comal County and Guadalupe County.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 135.02(a), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) The Texas State Technical College System is composed of:

(1) a system office located in the city of Waco in McLennan County;

(2) a campus located in the city of Harlingen in Cameron County;

(3) a campus serving West Texas that operates as a collective unit of strategically positioned permanent locations in the city of Sweetwater in Nolan County, the city of Abilene in Taylor County, the city of Brownwood in Brown County, and the city of Breckenridge in Stephens County;

(4) a campus located in the city of Marshall in Harrison County;

(5) a campus located in the city of Waco in McLennan County;

(6) a campus located in Fort Bend County;

(7) a campus located in the city of Red Oak in Ellis County; [and]

(8) a campus that operates as a collective unit of one or more locations in Comal County and Guadalupe County; and

(9) campuses assigned to the system from time to time by specific legislative Act.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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