75R9338 JSA-D
By Krusee H.B. No. 385
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 385:
By Rangel C.S.H.B. No. 385
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.