87R944 JRJ-D
By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 628
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the service areas of the Bee County College District and
the Del Mar College-Corpus Christi Junior College District.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 130.167, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 130.167. BEE COUNTY COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA.
The service area of the Bee County College District includes the
territory within:
(1) Bee, Karnes, Live Oak, [Jim Wells,] McMullen,
Duval, and Brooks counties;
(2) the Pleasanton Independent School District,
located in Atascosa County; and
(3) the Kingsville, Santa Gertrudis, and Ricardo
independent school districts, located in Kleberg County.
SECTION 2. Section 130.177, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 130.177. DEL MAR COLLEGE-CORPUS CHRISTI JUNIOR COLLEGE
DISTRICT SERVICE AREA. The service area of the Del Mar
College-Corpus Christi Junior College District includes the
territory within:
(1) the Corpus Christi, West Oso, Calallen,
Tuloso-Midway, and Flour Bluff independent school districts, and
any area located outside of those school districts that is within
the municipality of Corpus Christi;
(2) Jim Wells, Nueces, San Patricio, Aransas, and
Kenedy counties; and
(3) the Riviera Independent School District.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies
beginning with the 2021 fall semester, except that during the
2021-2022 academic year the Bee County College District may
continue to treat the area removed by this Act from the district's
service area as if the area were still in the district's service
area as necessary to avoid an unreasonable interruption of junior
college services in the area.
SECTION 4. 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, 2021.