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         By:  Lucio                                   S.B. No. 1522

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

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

 1-2     Community College.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 130, Subtitle G, Title 3,

 1-5     of the Education Code, is amended by adding Section 130.0312 to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7     Section 130.0312.  Validation of South Texas Community College Acts

 1-8     and Proceedings.

 1-9                                Application.

1-10           Section 1.  All governmental acts and proceedings of South

1-11     Texas Community College, since its creation, are validated as the

1-12     dates on which they occurred.

1-13                          Confirmation Proceedings.

1-14           Section 2.  (a)  The confirmation proceedings of South Texas

1-15     Community College are validated as of the date of such confirmation

1-16     or attempted confirmation and the confirmation of South Texas

1-17     Community College shall not be held invalid by the fact that the

1-18     election proceedings or confirmation proceedings may have not been

1-19     in accordance with the law.

1-20           (b)  All governmental proceedings performed by the board of

1-21     trustees of South Texas Community College and their officers since

1-22     the confirmation or attempted confirmation proceedings of South

1-23     Texas Community College are validated as the date of such

 2-1     proceedings.

 2-2                            Effective Litigation.

 2-3           Section 3.  This Act does not apply to any matter that on the

 2-4     effective date of this

 2-5           (a)  Is involved in litigation if the litigation ultimately

 2-6     results in the matter being held invalid by a final judgment of a

 2-7     court of competent jurisdiction; or

 2-8           (b)  Has been held invalid by a final judgment of a court of

 2-9     competent jurisdiction.

2-10           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-16     passage, and it is so enacted.