1-1  By:  Coleman (Senate Sponsor - Ellis)                 H.B. No. 1465
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 1995;
    1-3  April 4, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Education; April 19, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 19, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                               By:  Sibley
    1-7  Amend H.B. 1465 in Section 1. of the bill (line 14) by adding the
    1-8  following:
    1-9  property abutting the street or alley and if the institution owns
   1-10  20 or more acres of real property at the campus where the street or
   1-11  alley is located.
   1-12                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-13                                AN ACT
   1-14  relating to the authority of the governing bodies of certain public
   1-15  institutions of higher education to close streets or alleys running
   1-16  through the campuses of those institutions.
   1-17        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-18        SECTION 1.  Section 51.904, Education Code, is amended to
   1-19  read as follows:
   1-20        Sec. 51.904.  Street Closing.  The governing body of an
   1-21  institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003 <a
   1-22  state-supported college or university> in a county having a
   1-23  population in excess of 2,000,000 may vacate, abandon, and close a
   1-24  street or alley running through the campus if the institution
   1-25  <state-supported college or university> owns all of the real
   1-26  property abutting the street or alley.
   1-27        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-28  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-29  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-30  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-31  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-32  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-33  passage, and it is so enacted.
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