Enrolled Bill Summary

            The Texas Legislature created South Texas Community College in 1993, when it converted a Texas State Technical College (TSTC) extension center in McAllen to a new joint county-junior college. That legislation established a temporary governing board and required the board to call and hold an election within Hidalgo and Starr counties to confirm the college's creation, provide for the elected board of trustees, and authorize the issuance of bonds and levying of taxes. House Bill 2528 validates all governmental acts and proceedings of South Texas Community College, of its board of trustees, and of a college officer or employee that were taken before March 1, 1997, relating to the confirmation proceedings and to the transfer of property from the TSTC extension center to the college. The act does not validate any act or proceeding that constitutes a felony or misdemeanor offense or that, on the act's effective date, is involved in litigation that results in the matter being invalidated by a court or has been invalidated by a court.