| 1 | 1 | | By: Birdwell S.B. No. 420 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Filed January 30, 2015; February 4, 2015, |
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| 3 | 3 | | read first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education; |
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| 4 | 4 | | March 31, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable Committee |
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| 5 | 5 | | Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 31, 2015, |
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| 6 | 6 | | sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | 7 | | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 8 | 8 | | COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 420 By: Seliger |
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| 11 | 11 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 12 | 12 | | AN ACT |
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| 13 | 13 | | relating to the creation of a campus of the Texas State Technical |
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| 14 | 14 | | College System in Ellis County. |
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| 15 | 15 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 16 | 16 | | SECTION 1. Section 135.02(a), Education Code, is amended to |
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| 17 | 17 | | read as follows: |
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| 18 | 18 | | (a) The Texas State Technical College System is composed of: |
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| 19 | 19 | | (1) a system office located in the city of Waco in |
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| 20 | 20 | | McLennan County; |
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| 21 | 21 | | (2) a campus located in the city of Harlingen in |
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| 22 | 22 | | Cameron County; |
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| 23 | 23 | | (3) a campus serving West Texas that operates as a |
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| 24 | 24 | | collective unit of strategically positioned permanent locations in |
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| 25 | 25 | | the city of Sweetwater in Nolan County, the city of Abilene in |
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| 26 | 26 | | Taylor County, the city of Brownwood in Brown County, and the city |
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| 27 | 27 | | of Breckenridge in Stephens County; |
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| 28 | 28 | | (4) a campus located in the city of Marshall in |
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| 29 | 29 | | Harrison County; |
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| 30 | 30 | | (5) a campus located in the city of Waco in McLennan |
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| 31 | 31 | | County; |
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| 32 | 32 | | (6) a campus [an extension center] located in the city |
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| 33 | 33 | | of Red Oak in Ellis County; and |
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| 34 | 34 | | (7) campuses assigned to the system from time to time |
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| 35 | 35 | | by specific legislative Act. |
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| 36 | 36 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 37 | 37 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 38 | 38 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 39 | 39 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 40 | 40 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |
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| 41 | 41 | | * * * * * |
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