By Counts                                             H.B. No. 3303
         77R8302 JSA-D                           
                                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. 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           SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies
1-13     beginning with the 2001 fall semester, except that during the
1-14     2001-2002 academic year a junior college district whose service
1-15     area is changed by this Act may continue to treat an area removed
1-16     by this Act from the district's service area as if the area were
1-17     still in the district's service area as necessary to avoid an
1-18     unreasonable interruption of junior college services in the area.
1-19           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-20     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-21     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-22     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-23     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.