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2-5 repealed.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.