Bill Text: TX HB658 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a campus of the Texas State Technical College System in Fort Bend County.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-23 - Effective immediately [HB658 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB658-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 658 | ||
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| relating to the creation of a campus of the Texas State Technical | ||
| College System in Fort Bend 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 located in Fort Bend County; | ||
| (7) an extension center located in Ellis County; and | ||
| (8) [ |
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| time by specific legislative Act. | ||
| 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. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 658 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 13, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 3, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 658 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 12, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
