1-1     By:  Ogden                                            S.B. No. 1553

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 20, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 11, 1997,

 1-4     reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the

 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 11, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1553               By:  Shapleigh

 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to the service areas of certain public junior colleges.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Sections 130.166 and 130.202, Education Code, are

1-12     amended to read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 130.166.  Austin Community College District Service

1-14     Area.  The service area of the Austin Community College District

1-15     includes the territory within:

1-16                 (1)  Travis, Bastrop, Hays, Gillespie, Caldwell, and

1-17     Blanco counties;

1-18                 (2)  the Marble Falls Independent School District,

1-19     located in Burnet County; and

1-20                 (3)  Williamson County, except the territory within the

1-21     Florence, Granger, Hutto, Taylor, and Thrall [Granger] independent

1-22     school districts.

1-23           Sec. 130.202.  TEMPLE JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA.

1-24     The service area of the Temple Junior College District includes the

1-25     territory within:

1-26                 (1)  the Temple Independent School District;

1-27                 (2)  the municipality of Temple;

1-28                 (3)  the Academy, Bartlett, Belton, Holland, Rogers,

1-29     Troy, and Salado independent school districts located in Bell

1-30     County;

1-31                 (4)  the Buckholts, Cameron, and Thorndale independent

1-32     school districts located in Milam County;

1-33                 (5)  the Granger, Hutto, [and] Taylor, and Thrall

1-34     independent school districts located in Williamson County;

1-35                 (6)  the part of the Rosebud-Lott Independent School

1-36     District that is located in Milam County; and

1-37                 (7)  the part of the Bartlett Independent School

1-38     District that is located in Milam County.

1-39           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies

1-40     beginning with the 1997 fall semester, except that during the

1-41     1997-1998 academic year a junior college district whose service

1-42     area is changed by this Act may continue to treat an area removed

1-43     by this Act from the district's service area as if the area were

1-44     still in the district's service area as necessary to avoid an

1-45     unreasonable interruption of junior college services in the area.

1-46           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-47     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-48     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-49     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-50     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-51     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-52     passage, and it is so enacted.

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