By McClendon H.B. No. 3336
76R6004 CAG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to establishing a campus of the Texas State Technical
1-3 College System in eastern Bexar County.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 135.02(a), Education Code, as amended by
1-6 Section 3, Chapter 359, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular
1-7 Session, 1993, is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (a) The Texas State Technical College System is composed of:
1-9 (1) a system office located in the city of Waco in
1-10 McLennan County;
1-11 (2) a campus located in the city of Amarillo in Potter
1-12 County;
1-13 (3) a campus located in the city of Harlingen in
1-14 Cameron County;
1-15 (4) a campus located in the city of Sweetwater in
1-16 Nolan County;
1-17 (5) an extension center located in the city of
1-18 Marshall in Harrison County;
1-19 (6) a campus located in the city of Waco in McLennan
1-20 County;
1-21 (7) a campus located in eastern Bexar County within
1-22 three miles of the intersection of Interstate Highway 35 and
1-23 Interstate Highway 37;
1-24 (8) extension centers in the city of Brownwood in
2-1 Brown County and the city of Abilene in Taylor County and an
2-2 extension program offered through a rural technology center in the
2-3 city of Breckenridge in Stephens County; and
2-4 (9) [(8)] other campuses assigned to the system from
2-5 time to time by specific legislative Act.
2-6 SECTION 2. The board of regents of the Texas State Technical
2-7 College System shall take all necessary steps to establish the
2-8 campus in eastern Bexar County under Section 135.02(a), Education
2-9 Code, as amended by this Act, and to begin offering courses at that
2-10 campus not later than the 2000 fall semester.
2-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.