1-1           By:  Haywood                                     S.B. No. 109

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed November 27, 1996; January 14, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Education;

 1-4     January 30, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas

 1-5     9, Nays 0; January 30, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the service areas of certain junior college districts.

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

1-10           SECTION 1.  Sections 130.169 and 130.173, Education Code, are

1-11     amended to read as follows:

1-12           Sec. 130.169.  BORGER JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA.

1-13     The service area of the Borger Junior College District includes:

1-14                 (1)  the territory within the Borger Independent School

1-15     District;

1-16                 (2)  the territory within the Spring Creek Independent

1-17     School District that is also within the junior college district's

1-18     taxing district;

1-19                 (3)  the territory within Dallam, Sherman, Hansford,

1-20     Ochiltree, Lipscomb, Hartley, Hutchinson, Roberts, and Hemphill

1-21     counties; and

1-22                 (4)  the territory within Moore County, except the

1-23     territory within the Dumas Independent School District[; and]

1-24                 [(5)  the territory within the Pampa Independent School

1-25     District located in Gray County].

1-26           Sec. 130.173.  CLARENDON COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA.  The

1-27     service area of the Clarendon College District includes the

1-28     territory within Gray,[:]

1-29                 [(1)]  Donley, Wheeler, Armstrong, Collingsworth,

1-30     Briscoe, Hall, and Childress counties[; and]

1-31                 [(2)  Gray County, except the territory within the

1-32     Pampa Independent School District].

1-33           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-34     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-35     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-36     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-37     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-38     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-39     passage, and it is so enacted.

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