1-1     By:  Krusee (Senate Sponsor - Ogden)                   H.B. No. 385

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1997;

 1-3     April 22, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Education; May 8, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 8, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the service areas of certain public junior colleges.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Sections 130.166 and 130.202, Education Code, are

1-11     amended to read as follows:

1-12           Sec. 130.166.  Austin Community College District Service

1-13     Area.  The service area of the Austin Community College District

1-14     includes the territory within:

1-15                 (1)  Travis, Bastrop, Hays, Gillespie, Caldwell, and

1-16     Blanco counties;

1-17                 (2)  the Marble Falls Independent School District,

1-18     located in Burnet County; and

1-19                 (3)  Williamson County, except the territory within the

1-20     Florence, Granger, Hutto, Taylor, and Thrall [Granger] independent

1-21     school districts.

1-22           Sec. 130.202.  TEMPLE JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA.

1-23     The service area of the Temple Junior College District includes the

1-24     territory within:

1-25                 (1)  the Temple Independent School District;

1-26                 (2)  the municipality of Temple;

1-27                 (3)  the Academy, Bartlett, Belton, Holland, Rogers,

1-28     Troy, and Salado independent school districts located in Bell

1-29     County;

1-30                 (4)  the Buckholts, Cameron, and Thorndale independent

1-31     school districts located in Milam County;

1-32                 (5)  the Granger, Hutto, [and]  Taylor, and Thrall

1-33     independent school districts located in  Williamson County;

1-34                 (6)  the part of the Rosebud-Lott Independent School

1-35     District that is located in Milam County; and

1-36                 (7)  the part of the Bartlett Independent School

1-37     District that is located in Milam County.

1-38           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies

1-39     beginning with the 1997 fall semester, except that during the

1-40     1997-1998 academic year a junior college district whose service

1-41     area is changed by this Act may continue to treat an area removed

1-42     by this Act from the district's service area as if the area were

1-43     still in the district's service area as necessary to avoid an

1-44     unreasonable interruption of junior college services in the area.

1-45           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-46     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-47     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-48     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-49     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-50     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-51     passage, and it is so enacted.

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