86R144 MM-F
 
  By: Lang H.B. No. 355
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to junior college district territory annexation and
  program approval in certain counties.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 130.063(d), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (d)  A [Except as provided by Subsection (e), a] junior
  college district may not annex territory under this section if a
  campus of the Texas State Technical College System is located:
               (1)  within the county in which the territory is
  located; and
               (2)  outside the junior college district.
         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, Fort Bend,
  and Potter Counties [counties].
         SECTION 3.  Section 130.063(e), Education Code, is repealed.
         SECTION 4.  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, 2019.