1-1  By:  Ellis                                             S.B. No. 728
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 23, 1995; February 23, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
    1-4  March 29, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
    1-5  Nays 0; March 29, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the authority of the governing bodies of certain public
    1-9  institutions of higher education to close streets or alleys running
   1-10  through the campuses of those institutions.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Section 51.904, Education Code, is amended to
   1-13  read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 51.904.  Street Closing.  The governing body of an
   1-15  institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003 <a
   1-16  state-supported college or university> in a county having a
   1-17  population in excess of 2,000,000 may vacate, abandon, and close a
   1-18  street or alley running through the campus if the institution
   1-19  <state-supported college or university> owns all of the real
   1-20  property abutting the street or alley.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-25  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-26  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-27  passage, and it is so enacted.
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