By Jones of Lubbock H.B. No. 2413 75R7852 JSA-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain bonds and notes issued by the board of regents 1-3 of Texas Tech University. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 62, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 62.0215 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 62.0215. TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY. The governing board of 1-8 Texas Tech University may issue bonds and notes as authorized by 1-9 Section 17, Article VII, Texas Constitution, on behalf of both 1-10 Texas Tech University and Texas Tech University Health Sciences 1-11 Center. The annual appropriations under Section 17, Article VII, 1-12 Texas Constitution, to those institutions may be combined and 1-13 pledged by the governing body of Texas Tech University in support 1-14 of the bonds and notes. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.