By Coleman, Gallegos, Davila, Flores H.B. No. 2752 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to authorizing the issuance of tuition revenue bonds for 1-3 the University of Houston--Downtown. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 55, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 55.1713 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 55.1713. UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON--DOWNTOWN. (a) The 1-8 board of regents of the University of Houston System may acquire, 1-9 purchase, construct, renovate, enlarge, and equip buildings, 1-10 facilities, and infrastructure for the University of 1-11 Houston--Downtown. 1-12 (b) Beginning September 1, 1993, the board may issue bonds 1-13 under this subchapter in an aggregate principal amount not to 1-14 exceed $22.4 million to finance those items. 1-15 (c) The board may pledge irrevocably to the payment of those 1-16 bonds all or any part of the aggregate amount of student tuition 1-17 charges required or authorized by law to be imposed on students 1-18 enrolled at the University of Houston--Downtown or at a component 1-19 of the University of Houston System. The amount of a pledge made 1-20 under this subsection may not be reduced or abrogated while the 1-21 bonds for which the pledge is made, or bonds issued to refund those 1-22 bonds, are outstanding. 1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.