Bill Text: TX HB355 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to junior college district territory annexation and program approval in certain counties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-10 - Left pending in committee [HB355 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB355-Introduced.html

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86R144 MM-F
By: Lang H.B. No. 355

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to junior college district territory annexation and
program approval in certain counties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 130.063(d), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(d) A [Except as provided by Subsection (e), a] junior
college district may not annex territory under this section if a
campus of the Texas State Technical College System is located:
(1) within the county in which the territory is
located; and
(2) outside the junior college district.
SECTION 2. Section 135.04(b), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) Before any program may be offered by a campus or
extension center within the tax district of a public junior college
that is operating a vocational and technical program, it must be
established that the public junior college is not capable of
offering or is unable to offer the program. After it is
established that a need for the program exists and that the program
is not locally available, the campus or extension center may offer
the program, provided approval is secured from the coordinating
board. Approval of technical-vocational programs under this
section does not apply to [Brown,] McLennan, Cameron, Fort Bend,
and Potter Counties [counties].
SECTION 3. Section 130.063(e), Education Code, is repealed.
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, 2019.