By Ogden                                        S.B. No. 1553

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the service areas of certain public junior colleges.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter J, Chapter 130, Education Code, is

 1-5     amended by adding Section 130.1615 to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 130.1615.  OVERLAPPING SERVICE AREAS.   Territory may be

 1-7     located in the service area of more than one junior college

 1-8     district.

 1-9           SECTION 2.  Section 130.202, Education Code, is amended to

1-10     read as follows:

1-11           Sec. 130.202.  TEMPLE JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA.

1-12     The service area of the Temple Junior College District  includes

1-13     the territory within:

1-14                 (1)  the Temple Independent School District;

1-15                 (2)  the municipality of Temple;

1-16                 (3)  the Academy, Bartlett, Belton, Holland, Rogers,

1-17     Troy, and Salado independent school districts located in Bell

1-18     County;

1-19                 (4)  the Buckholts, Cameron, and Thorndale independent

1-20     school districts located in Milam County;

1-21                 (5)  the Georgetown, Granger, Hutto, [and]  Taylor, and

1-22     Thrall independent school districts located in  Williamson County;

1-23                 (6)  the part of the Rosebud-Lott Independent School

1-24     District that is located in Milam County; and

 2-1                 (7)  the part of the Bartlett Independent School

 2-2     District that is located in Milam County.

 2-3           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-8     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-9     passage, and it is so enacted.