By Hinojosa                                           H.B. No. 1875
         76R7207 CAG-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the purchase or other acquisition of land by The
 1-3     University of Texas--Pan American.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 77.15(a), Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  In addition to other powers conferred on the board, the
 1-8     board on behalf of the university may acquire by purchase,
 1-9     exchange, or otherwise any tract or parcel of land in Hidalgo
1-10     County [that is contiguous or adjacent to the main campus of the
1-11     university in Edinburg, Texas].
1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.