By Green                                              H.B. No. 3258
         77R4266 KSD-D                           
                                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. Section 130.166, Education Code, is amended to
 1-5     read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 130.166.  AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE
 1-7     AREA. The service area of the Austin Community College District
 1-8     includes the territory within:
 1-9                 (1)  Travis, Bastrop, Hays, Gillespie, Caldwell, and
1-10     Blanco counties;
1-11                 (2)  the Marble Falls Independent School District[,]
1-12     located in Burnet County; [and]
1-13                 (3)  Williamson County, except the territory within the
1-14     Florence, Granger, Hutto, Taylor, and Thrall independent school
1-15     districts; and
1-16                 (4)  the part of the Nixon-Smiley Consolidated
1-17     Independent School District located in Gonzales County.
1-18           SECTION 2. Section 130.208, Education Code, is amended to
1-19     read as follows:
1-20           Sec. 130.208.  THE VICTORIA COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA.
1-21     The service area of The Victoria College District includes the
1-22     territory within:
1-23                 (1)  Victoria, [Gonzales,] Lavaca, DeWitt, and Calhoun
1-24     counties;
 2-1                 (2)  Jackson County, except the territory within the
 2-2     Ganado Independent School District; [and]
 2-3                 (3)  Refugio County, except the territory within the
 2-4     Woodsboro Independent School District; and
 2-5                 (4)  Gonzales County, except the territory within the
 2-6     Nixon-Smiley Consolidated Independent School District.
 2-7           SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies
 2-8     beginning with the 2001 fall semester, except that during the
 2-9     2001-2002 academic year a junior college district whose service
2-10     area is changed by this Act may continue to treat an area removed
2-11     by this Act from the district's service area as if the area were
2-12     still in the district's service area as necessary to avoid an
2-13     unreasonable interruption of junior college services in the area.
2-14           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
2-15     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-16     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
2-17     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-18     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.