By Gutierrez                                          H.B. No. 2314
       74R6235 SMH-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the election of the board of trustees of South Texas
    1-3  Community College.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 130.0311, Education Code, is amended by
    1-6  amending Subsections (m) and (n) and adding Subsection (o) to read
    1-7  as follows:
    1-8        (m)  If South Texas Community College is confirmed as
    1-9  provided by this section, the board of trustees shall be elected as
   1-10  provided by Sections 130.082 and 130.0822.
   1-11        (n)  If South Texas Community College is not confirmed in
   1-12  accordance with this section before August 31, 2000, the college is
   1-13  abolished on that date.
   1-14        (o) <(n)>  This section expires January 1, 2001.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-21  passage, and it is so enacted.