79R4817 KEL-F

By:  Hardcastle                                                   H.B. No. 1274



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the service area of the Ranger Junior College District.           
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.   Section 130.196, Education Code, is amended to 
read as follows: 
	Sec. 130.196.  RANGER JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE 
AREA.  The service area of the Ranger Junior College District 
includes the territory within:
		(1)  the part of the Ranger Independent School District 
that is located in Eastland County, except the area that is known as 
the old Bullock School Land; and
		(2)  [Young,] Comanche, Brown, and Erath counties.           
	SECTION 2.   The change in law made by this Act applies 
beginning with the 2005 fall semester, except that during the 
2005-2006 academic year the Ranger Junior College District may 
continue to treat the area removed by this Act from the district's 
service area as if the area were still in the district's service 
area as necessary to avoid an unreasonable interruption of junior 
college services in the area.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.