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            |  | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | 
         
            |  | AN ACT | 
         
            |  | relating to the service area of the Houston Community College | 
         
            |  | System District. | 
         
            |  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
         
            |  | SECTION 1.  Section 130.182, Education Code, is amended to | 
         
            |  | read as follows: | 
         
            |  | Sec. 130.182.  HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM DISTRICT | 
         
            |  | SERVICE AREA.  The service area of the Houston Community College | 
         
            |  | System District includes the territory within: | 
         
            |  | (1)  the Houston, Alief, Katy, Spring Branch, and North | 
         
            |  | Forest independent school districts; | 
         
            |  | (2)  the Stafford Municipal School District; [ and] | 
         
            |  | (3)  the part of the Fort Bend Independent School | 
         
            |  | District that is located in the municipalities of Houston, Missouri | 
         
            |  | City, and Pearland; and | 
         
            |  | (4)  the part of the Fort Bend Independent School | 
         
            |  | District that is not located in the service area of the Wharton | 
         
            |  | County Junior College District and that is adjacent to the Houston | 
         
            |  | Community College System District. | 
         
            |  | SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |