S.B. No. 773 AN ACT 1-1 relating to abandoned personal property at private institutions of 1-2 higher education. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 51.213, Education Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 51.213. ABANDONED PERSONAL PROPERTY. (a) The 1-7 governing board of each state institution of higher education, 1-8 including public junior colleges, is authorized to promulgate rules 1-9 and regulations providing for the disposition of abandoned and 1-10 unclaimed personal property coming into the possession of the 1-11 campus security personnel where the personal property is not being 1-12 held as evidence to be used in any pending criminal case. 1-13 (b) The authority granted to governing boards under 1-14 Subsection (a) may also be exercised by governing boards of private 1-15 institutions of higher education, including private junior 1-16 colleges. 1-17 (c) In this section, "private institution of higher 1-18 education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003(15). 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.