By: Birdwell S.B. No. 420

(In the Senate - Filed January 30, 2015; February 4, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education; March 31, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 31, 2015, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 420 By: Seliger

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. 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.

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