87R944 JRJ-D
 
  By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 628
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the service areas of the Bee County College District and
  the Del Mar College-Corpus Christi Junior College District.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 130.167, Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 130.167.  BEE COUNTY COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA.
  The service area of the Bee County College District includes the
  territory within:
               (1)  Bee, Karnes, Live Oak, [Jim Wells,] McMullen,
  Duval, and Brooks counties;
               (2)  the Pleasanton Independent School District,
  located in Atascosa County; and
               (3)  the Kingsville, Santa Gertrudis, and Ricardo
  independent school districts, located in Kleberg County.
         SECTION 2.  Section 130.177, Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 130.177.  DEL MAR COLLEGE-CORPUS CHRISTI JUNIOR COLLEGE
  DISTRICT SERVICE AREA. The service area of the Del Mar
  College-Corpus Christi Junior College District includes the
  territory within:
               (1)  the Corpus Christi, West Oso, Calallen,
  Tuloso-Midway, and Flour Bluff independent school districts, and
  any area located outside of those school districts that is within
  the municipality of Corpus Christi;
               (2)  Jim Wells, Nueces, San Patricio, Aransas, and
  Kenedy counties; and
               (3)  the Riviera Independent School District.
         SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies
  beginning with the 2021 fall semester, except that during the
  2021-2022 academic year the Bee County 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 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, 2021.