84R2886 JSL-F
 
  By: Birdwell S.B. No. 420
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the creation of a campus of the Texas State Technical
  College System in Ellis County.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 135.02(a), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  The Texas State Technical College System is composed of:
               (1)  a system office located in the city of Waco in
  McLennan County;
               (2)  a campus located in the city of Harlingen in
  Cameron County;
               (3)  a campus serving West Texas that operates as a
  collective unit of strategically positioned permanent locations in
  the city of Sweetwater in Nolan County, the city of Abilene in
  Taylor County, the city of Brownwood in Brown County, and the city
  of Breckenridge in Stephens County;
               (4)  a campus located in the city of Marshall in
  Harrison County;
               (5)  a campus located in the city of Waco in McLennan
  County;
               (6)  a campus [an extension center] located in the city
  of Red Oak in Ellis County; and
               (7)  campuses assigned to the system from time to time
  by specific legislative Act.
         SECTION 2.  Section 135.04(b), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (b)  Before any program may be offered by a campus or
  extension center within the tax district of a public junior college
  that is operating a vocational and technical program, it must be
  established that the public junior college is not capable of
  offering or is unable to offer the program.  After it is
  established that a need for the program exists and that the program
  is not locally available, the campus or extension center may offer
  the program, provided approval is secured from the coordinating
  board. Approval of technical-vocational programs under this
  section does not apply to Brown, McLennan, Cameron, Ellis, and
  Potter counties.
         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, 2015.