By Gutierrez, Solis, Flores, Cuellar,                 H.B. No. 2528

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the validation of acts and proceedings of South Texas

 1-3     Community College.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 130, Education Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Section 130.0312 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 130.0312.  VALIDATION OF CERTAIN ACTS AND PROCEEDINGS.

 1-8     (a)  All governmental acts and proceedings of South Texas Community

 1-9     College not excepted from the application of this section by

1-10     another provision of this section that were taken before March 1,

1-11     1997, are validated as of the dates on which they occurred.

1-12           (b)  This section does not validate any governmental act or

1-13     proceeding that, under the statutes of this state in effect at the

1-14     time the act or proceeding occurred, constituted an offense

1-15     punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony.

1-16           (c)  The acts and proceedings relating to the confirmation

1-17     proceedings of South Texas Community College are validated as of

1-18     the date of the confirmation or a good faith attempt at

1-19     confirmation. The confirmation of South Texas Community College

1-20     under Section 130.0311 may not be held invalid by the fact of any

1-21     procedural defects in the election proceedings or confirmation

1-22     proceedings required under Section 130.0311.

1-23           (d)  All governmental acts and proceedings of the board of

1-24     trustees of South Texas Community College or of an officer or

1-25     employee of the college during the transfer of the property or

 2-1     obligations from the McAllen extension center of the Texas State

 2-2     Technical College System to South Texas Community College and each

 2-3     act or proceeding taken or conducted since the confirmation of

 2-4     South Texas Community College are validated as of the dates on

 2-5     which they occurred.

 2-6           (e)  This section does not apply to any matter that on the

 2-7     effective date of this section:

 2-8                 (1)  is involved in litigation if the litigation

 2-9     ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final

2-10     judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction; or

2-11                 (2)  has been held invalid by a final judgment of a

2-12     court of competent jurisdiction.

2-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-19     passage, and it is so enacted.