By: Kuempel, Isaac (Senate Sponsor - Campbell) H.B. No. 4997
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 24, 2023;
  May 2, 2023, read first time and referred to Subcommittee on Higher
  Education; May 21, 2023, reported favorably from Committee on
  Education by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 21, 2023,
  sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to a campus of the Texas State Technical College System
  located in Comal County and Guadalupe 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 located in Fort Bend County;
               (7)  a campus located in the city of Red Oak in Ellis
  County; [and]
               (8)  a campus that operates as a collective unit of one
  or more locations in Comal County and Guadalupe County; and
               (9)  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, 2023.
 
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