By: Sibley S.B. No. 1281 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to security devices in housing owned or operated by 1-2 certain public or private colleges or universities. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 92.152, Property Code, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 (a) This subchapter does not apply to a room in a hotel, 1-7 motel, or inn or to similar transient housing or to residential 1-8 housing owned or operated by a public or private college or 1-9 university accredited by a recognized accrediting agency as defined 1-10 under Section 61.003, Education Code, or to residential housing 1-11 operated by preparatory schools accredited by the Texas Education 1-12 Agency, a regional accrediting agency, or any accrediting agency 1-13 recognized by the commissioner of education. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.