1-1  By:  Moncrief                                          S.B. No. 773
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 27, 1995; February 28, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
    1-4  March 29, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11,
    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 abandoned personal property at private institutions of
    1-9  higher education.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 51.213, Education Code, is amended to
   1-12  read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 51.213.  ABANDONED PERSONAL PROPERTY.  (a)  The
   1-14  governing board of each state institution of higher education,
   1-15  including public junior colleges, is authorized to promulgate rules
   1-16  and regulations providing for the disposition of abandoned and
   1-17  unclaimed personal property coming into the possession of the
   1-18  campus security personnel where the personal property is not being
   1-19  held as evidence to be used in any pending criminal case.
   1-20        (b)  The authority granted to governing boards under
   1-21  Subsection (a) may also be exercised by governing boards of private
   1-22  institutions of higher education, including private junior
   1-23  colleges.
   1-24        (c)  In this section, "private institution of higher
   1-25  education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003(15).
   1-26        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-27  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-28  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-29  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-30  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-31  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-32  passage, and it is so enacted.
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