By: Fraser, Duncan, Estes S.B. No. 489
(In the Senate - Filed February 1, 2011; February 14, 2011,
read first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;
March 7, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 0; March 7, 2011, sent to printer.)
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.
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