By Sadler                                             H.B. No. 2944

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to designating the Texas State Technical College System

 1-3     extension center in the city of Marshall as a campus of  the

 1-4     system.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 135.02(a), Education Code, as amended by

 1-7     Section 3, Chapter 359, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular

 1-8     Session, 1993, is amended to read as follows:

 1-9           (a)  The Texas State Technical College System is composed of:

1-10                 (1)  a system office located in the city of Waco in

1-11     McLennan County;

1-12                 (2)  a campus located in the city of Amarillo in Potter

1-13     County;

1-14                 (3)  a campus located in the city of Harlingen in

1-15     Cameron County;

1-16                 (4)  a campus located in the city of Sweetwater in

1-17     Nolan County;

1-18                 (5)  a campus [an extension center] located in the city

1-19     of Marshall in Harrison County;

1-20                 (6)  a campus located in the city of Waco in McLennan

1-21     County;

1-22                 (7)  extension centers in the city of Brownwood in

1-23     Brown County and the city of Abilene in Taylor County and an

1-24     extension program offered through a rural technology center in the

 2-1     city of Breckenridge in Stephens County; and

 2-2                 (8)  other campuses assigned to the system from time to

 2-3     time by specific legislative Act.

 2-4           SECTION 2.  Sections 135.02(d) and (e), Education Code, are

 2-5     repealed.

 2-6           SECTION 3.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this

 2-7     section, this Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-8           (b)  Sections 1 and 2 of this Act take effect on the earliest

 2-9     date on or after September 1, 1997, on which the designation of the

2-10     Texas State Technical College System extension center in the city

2-11     of Marshall as a campus of that system, as provided by Section 1 of

2-12     this Act, is approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating

2-13     Board.  The coordinating board shall approve the designation of

2-14     that extension center as a campus of the system if the coordinating

2-15     board determines that the designation is in the best interest of

2-16     the system and this state.  If the coordinating board does not

2-17     approve that designation on or before September 1, 2001, Sections 1

2-18     and 2 of this Act expire and have no effect.

2-19           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.