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          AN ACT
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        relating to junior college district territory annexation and  | 
      
      
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        program approval in certain counties. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Section 130.063, Education Code, is amended by  | 
      
      
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        amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e) to read as  | 
      
      
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        follows: | 
      
      
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               (d)  Except as provided by Subsection (e), a [A] junior  | 
      
      
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        college district may not annex territory under this section if a  | 
      
      
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        campus of the Texas State Technical College System is located: | 
      
      
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                     (1)  within the county in which the territory is  | 
      
      
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        located; and | 
      
      
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                     (2)  outside the junior college district. | 
      
      
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               (e)  This section does not prevent a junior college district  | 
      
      
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        from annexing territory located in Brown County. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  Section 135.04(b), Education Code, is amended to  | 
      
      
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        read as follows: | 
      
      
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               (b)  Before any program may be offered by a campus or  | 
      
      
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        extension center within the tax district of a public junior college  | 
      
      
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        that is operating a vocational and technical program, it must be  | 
      
      
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        established that the public junior college is not capable of  | 
      
      
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        offering or is unable to offer the program.  After it is established  | 
      
      
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        that a need for the program exists and that the program is not  | 
      
      
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        locally available, the campus or extension center may offer the  | 
      
      
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        program, provided approval is secured from the coordinating board.  | 
      
      
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        Approval of technical-vocational programs under this section does  | 
      
      
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        not apply to Brown, McLennan, Cameron, and Potter counties. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives  | 
      
      
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        a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as  | 
      
      
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        provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this  | 
      
      
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        Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this  | 
      
      
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        Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | 
      
      
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        ______________________________ | 
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           President of the Senate | 
        Speaker of the House      | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 3332 was passed by the House on April  | 
      
      
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        25, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 136, Nays 0, 2 present, not  | 
      
      
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        voting. | 
      
      
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        ______________________________ | 
      
      
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        Chief Clerk of the House    | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 3332 was passed by the Senate on May  | 
      
      
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        20, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
      
      
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        Secretary of the Senate     | 
      
      
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        APPROVED:  _____________________ | 
      
      
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                         Governor        |