AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the disposition of the City of Lubbock's

 1-2     auditorium-coliseum complex located on real property conveyed to

 1-3     the municipality by Texas Tech University.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 185, Acts of the 48th Legislature, 1943,

 1-6     is amended by adding Section 4 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 4.  (a)  The City of Lubbock may, after receiving voter

 1-8     approval at an election called for that issue, demolish any part of

 1-9     the auditorium-coliseum complex that has been conveyed or leased or

1-10     on which easements have been granted under Section 1 of this Act.

1-11           (b)  If only the coliseum portion of the auditorium-coliseum

1-12     complex is demolished, the area formerly occupied by the coliseum

1-13     portion may continue to be used by the City of Lubbock for any use

1-14     that supports the remaining facility and the area formerly occupied

1-15     by the coliseum portion does not revert to Texas Tech University

1-16     until the entire auditorium-coliseum complex is no longer used for

1-17     auditorium-coliseum purposes.

1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1621 passed the Senate on

         April 17, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that

         the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 15, 1997, by the

         following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1621 passed the House, with

         amendment, on May 13, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 143,

         Nays 0, two present not voting.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor