1-1                                                              H.B. No. 1465
    1-2                                                    AN ACT
    1-3  relating to the authority of the governing bodies of certain public
    1-4  institutions of higher education to close streets or alleys running
    1-5  through the campuses of those institutions.
    1-6        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-7        SECTION 1.  Section 51.904, Education Code, is amended to
    1-8  read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 51.904.  Street Closing.  The governing body of an
   1-10  institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003 <a
   1-11  state-supported college or university> in a county having a
   1-12  population in excess of 2,000,000 may vacate, abandon, and close a
   1-13  street or alley running through the campus if the institution
   1-14  <state-supported college or university> owns all of the real
   1-15  property abutting the street or alley and if the institution owns
   1-16  20 or more acres of real property at the campus where the street or
   1-17  alley is located.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-24  passage, and it is so enacted.