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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