By:  Moncrief                                          S.B. No. 773
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        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.