By Counts H.B. No. 3303 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the service area of the Vernon Regional Junior College 1-3 District. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 130.207, Education Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 130.207. VERNON REGIONAL JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT 1-8 SERVICE AREA. (a) The service area of the Vernon Regional Junior 1-9 College District includes the territory within Wilbarger, Archer, 1-10 Baylor, Clay, Cottle, Foard, Hardeman, Haskell, King, Knox, 1-11 Throckmorton, and Wichita counties. 1-12 (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), Haskell County is not 1-13 included in the service area of the Vernon Regional Junior College 1-14 District. This subsection expires September 1, 2005. 1-15 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies 1-16 beginning with the 2001 fall semester, except that during the 1-17 2001-2002 academic year a junior college district whose service 1-18 area is changed by this Act may continue to treat an area removed 1-19 by this Act from the district's service area as if the area were 1-20 still in the district's service area as necessary to avoid an 1-21 unreasonable interruption of junior college services in the area. 1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 1-23 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 1-24 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this 2-1 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 2-2 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.