1-1 By: Duncan S.B. No. 1621 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; April 3, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 3, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the disposition of the City of Lubbock's 1-9 auditorium-coliseum complex located on real property conveyed to 1-10 the City of Lubbock by Texas Tech University. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Chapter 185, Acts of the 48th Legislature, 1943, 1-13 is amended by adding Section 3A to read as follows: 1-14 SECTION 3A. The City of Lubbock and Texas Tech University 1-15 may enter into any agreement or agreements and execute any 1-16 conveyances that are mutually satisfactory to the board of regents 1-17 of Texas Tech University and to the City Council of the City of 1-18 Lubbock with regard to the continued use, lease, or demolition of 1-19 all or part of the auditorium-coliseum complex that has been 1-20 constructed and to the use or lease of the land that has been 1-21 conveyed, leased, or on which easements have been granted, pursuant 1-22 to Section 1 of this Act; provided, however, that prior to the 1-23 demolition of all or part of the auditorium-coliseum the City of 1-24 Lubbock shall obtain the approval of the voters at an election 1-25 called for such purpose. 1-26 SECTION 2. If any section, sentence, clause, phrase, or part 1-27 of this Act shall be held to be invalid for any reason, such 1-28 invalidity shall not affect the remainder of the Act. 1-29 SECTION 3. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith 1-30 are hereby expressly repealed to the extent of such conflict. 1-31 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-32 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-33 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-34 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-35 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-36 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-37 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-38 * * * * *