| 1 | 1 | | 89R759 JTZ-F |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Guillen H.B. No. 238 |
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| 7 | 7 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 8 | 8 | | AN ACT |
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| 9 | 9 | | relating to the allocation of the campuses of the Texas State |
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| 10 | 10 | | Technical College System. |
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| 11 | 11 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 12 | 12 | | SECTION 1. Section 135.02(a), Education Code, is amended to |
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| 13 | 13 | | read as follows: |
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| 14 | 14 | | (a) The Texas State Technical College System is composed of: |
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| 15 | 15 | | (1) a system office located in the city of Waco in |
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| 16 | 16 | | McLennan County; |
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| 17 | 17 | | (2) a campus located in Cameron County; |
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| 18 | 18 | | (3) a campus serving West Texas that operates as a |
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| 19 | 19 | | collective unit of strategically positioned permanent locations in |
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| 20 | 20 | | Nolan County, Taylor County, Brown County, and Stephens County; |
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| 21 | 21 | | (4) a campus located in Harrison County; |
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| 22 | 22 | | (5) a campus located in McLennan County; |
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| 23 | 23 | | (6) a campus located in Fort Bend County; |
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| 24 | 24 | | (7) a campus that operates as a collective unit of one |
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| 25 | 25 | | or more locations in Ellis County; |
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| 26 | 26 | | (8) a campus that operates as a collective unit of one |
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| 27 | 27 | | or more locations in Comal County, [and] Guadalupe County, and |
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| 28 | 28 | | Wilson County; |
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| 29 | 29 | | (9) a campus located in Denton County; |
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| 30 | 30 | | (10) a campus that operates as a collective unit of one |
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| 31 | 31 | | or more locations in Williamson County east of State Highway 130 and |
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| 32 | 32 | | Interstate Highway 35; [and] |
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| 33 | 33 | | (11) a campus located in Starr County; and |
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| 34 | 34 | | (12) 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. Section 135.04(b), Education Code, is amended to |
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| 37 | 37 | | read as follows: |
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| 38 | 38 | | (b) Before any program may be offered by a campus or |
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| 39 | 39 | | extension center within the tax district of a public junior college |
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| 40 | 40 | | that is operating a vocational and technical program, it must be |
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| 41 | 41 | | established that the public junior college is not capable of |
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| 42 | 42 | | offering or is unable to offer the program. After it is established |
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| 43 | 43 | | that a need for the program exists and that the program is not |
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| 44 | 44 | | locally available, the campus or extension center may offer the |
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| 45 | 45 | | program, provided approval is secured from the coordinating board. |
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| 46 | 46 | | Approval of technical-vocational programs under this section does |
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| 47 | 47 | | not apply to Brown, McLennan, Cameron, Fort Bend, Comal, Denton, |
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| 48 | 48 | | Guadalupe, Williamson, Wilson, [and] Potter, and Starr Counties. |
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| 49 | 49 | | SECTION 3. Section 130.063(e), Education Code, is amended |
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| 50 | 50 | | to read as follows: |
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| 51 | 51 | | (e) This section does not prevent a junior college district |
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| 52 | 52 | | from annexing territory located in Brown County, Comal County, |
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| 53 | 53 | | Denton County, Guadalupe County, [or] Williamson County, Starr |
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| 54 | 54 | | County, or Wilson County. |
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| 55 | 55 | | SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 56 | 56 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 57 | 57 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 58 | 58 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 59 | 59 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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