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 2-1 employee of the college during the transfer of the property or 2-2 obligations from the McAllen extension center of the Texas State 2-3 Technical College System to South Texas Community College and each 2-4 act or proceeding taken or conducted since the confirmation of 2-5 South Texas Community College are validated as of the dates on 2-6 which they occurred. 2-7 (e) This section does not apply to any matter that on the 2-8 effective date of this section: 2-9 (1) is involved in litigation if the litigation 2-10 ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final 2-11 judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction; or 2-12 (2) has been held invalid by a final judgment of a 2-13 court of competent jurisdiction. 2-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-20 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2528 was passed by the House on April 25, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 3 present, not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2528 was passed by the Senate on May 12, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor