Bill Text: TX HB355 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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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By: Lang | H.B. No. 355 |
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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 [ |
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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 [ |
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and Potter Counties [ |
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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 Section 130.063(e), Education Code, is repealed.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. |