By: Wray, Fallon (Senate Sponsor - Birdwell) H.B. No. 1051
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 2015;
May 4, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher
Education; May 7, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 7, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the creation of a campus of the Texas State Technical
College System in Ellis 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 [an extension center] located in the city
of Red Oak in Ellis County; and
(7) 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, 2015.
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