Bill Text: TX SB489 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 489 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the Texas State Technical College System.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB489 Detail]

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	By: Fraser, Duncan, Estes	S.B. No. 489

	(King of Taylor)


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the Texas State Technical College System.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subdivision (5), Section 135.011, Education
	Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(5) "Campus" means a [~~residential~~] unit of the system
	that grants associate degrees and certificates.
	SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 135.02, 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
	[~~located~~] 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; and
	(6) [~~extension centers in the city of Brownwood in~~
	~~Brown County and the city of Abilene in Taylor County and an~~
	~~extension program offered through a rural technology center in the~~
	~~city of Breckenridge in Stephens County; and~~
	[~~(7) other~~] campuses assigned to the system from time
	to time by specific legislative Act.
	SECTION 3. 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, 2011.