By Krusee                                              H.B. No. 385

         75R9338 JSA-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the service areas of certain public junior colleges.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Sections 130.166 and 130.202, Education Code, are

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 130.166.  Austin Community College District Service

 1-7     Area.  The service area of the Austin Community College District

 1-8     includes the territory within:

 1-9                 (1)  Travis, Bastrop, Hays, Gillespie, Caldwell, and

1-10     Blanco counties;

1-11                 (2)  the Marble Falls Independent School District,

1-12     located in Burnet County; and

1-13                 (3)  Williamson County, except the territory within the

1-14     Florence, Granger, Hutto, Taylor, and Thrall [Granger] independent

1-15     school districts.

1-16           Sec. 130.202.  TEMPLE JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA.

1-17     The service area of the Temple Junior College District includes the

1-18     territory within:

1-19                 (1)  the Temple Independent School District;

1-20                 (2)  the municipality of Temple;

1-21                 (3)  the Academy, Bartlett, Belton, Holland, Rogers,

1-22     Troy, and Salado independent school districts located in Bell

1-23     County;

1-24                 (4)  the Buckholts, Cameron, and Thorndale independent

 2-1     school districts located in Milam County;

 2-2                 (5)  the Granger, Hutto, [and]  Taylor, and Thrall

 2-3     independent school districts located in  Williamson County;

 2-4                 (6)  the part of the Rosebud-Lott Independent School

 2-5     District that is located in Milam County; and

 2-6                 (7)  the part of the Bartlett Independent School

 2-7     District that is located in Milam County.

 2-8           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies

 2-9     beginning with the 1997 fall semester, except that during the

2-10     1997-1998 academic year a junior college district whose service

2-11     area is changed by this Act may continue to treat an area removed

2-12     by this Act from the district's service area as if the area were

2-13     still in the district's service area as necessary to avoid an

2-14     unreasonable interruption of junior college services in the area.

2-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-21     passage, and it is so enacted.