By Chisum                                              H.B. No. 211

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the service areas of certain junior college districts.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Sections 130.169 and 130.173, Education Code, are

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 130.169.  BORGER JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA.

 1-7     The service area of the Borger Junior College District includes:

 1-8                 (1)  the territory within the Borger Independent School

 1-9     District;

1-10                 (2)  the territory within the Spring Creek Independent

1-11     School District that is also within the junior college district's

1-12     taxing district;

1-13                 (3)  the territory within Dallam, Sherman, Hansford,

1-14     Ochiltree, Lipscomb, Hartley, Hutchinson, Roberts, and Hemphill

1-15     counties; and

1-16                 (4)  the territory within Moore County, except the

1-17     territory within the Dumas Independent School District [; and]

1-18                 [(5)  the territory within the Pampa Independent School

1-19     District located in Gray County].

1-20           Sec. 130.173.  CLARENDON COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA.  The

1-21     service area of the Clarendon College District includes the

1-22     territory within [:]

1-23                 [(1)]  Gray, Donley, Wheeler, Armstrong, Collingsworth,

1-24     Briscoe, Hall, and Childress counties [; and]

 2-1                 [(2)  Gray County, except the territory within the

 2-2     Pampa Independent School District].

 2-3           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-8     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-9     passage, and it is so enacted.