Amend HB 2944 on page 2, line 6, by striking SECTION 3 and substituting the following: SECTION 3. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, this Act takes effect September 1, 1997. (b) Sections 1 and 2 of this Act take effect on the earliest date on or after September 1, 1997, on which the designation of the Texas State Technical College System extension center in the city of Marshall as a campus of that system, as provided by Section 1 of this Act, is approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The coordinating board shall approve the designation of that extension center as a campus of the system if the coordinating board determines that the designation is in the best interest of the system and this state. If the coordinating board does not approve that designation on or before September 1, 2001, Sections 1 and 2 of this Act expire and have no effect.