By:  West                                             S.B. No. 1451
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the disposition of surplus and salvage property of
 1-2     certain institutions of higher education.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 2175.125, Government Code, is amended to
 1-5     read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 2175.125.  PRIORITIES [PRIORITY] FOR TRANSFER [TO STATE
 1-7     AGENCY].  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), during
 1-8     [During] the 30 days after the date of notice under Section
 1-9     2175.122, a transfer to a state agency has priority over any other
1-10     transfer under rules adopted by the commission.
1-11           (b)  If the state agency that has surplus or salvage property
1-12     available for transfer is an institution of higher education,
1-13     during the 30 days after the date of notice under Section 2175.122
1-14     the institution under rules of the commission shall give preference
1-15     to transferring the property to an entity that requests the
1-16     property in the following order of priority:
1-17                 (1)  a public school or school district;
1-18                 (2)  another state agency or a political subdivision
1-19     other than a school district; or
1-20                 (3)  an assistance agency.
1-21           SECTION 2.  Section 2175.302, Government Code, is amended to
1-22     read as follows:
1-23           Sec. 2175.302.  EXCEPTION FOR ELEEMOSYNARY INSTITUTIONS [AND
1-24     INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES OF HIGHER EDUCATION].  This chapter does
 2-1     not apply to the disposition of surplus or salvage property by a
 2-2     state eleemosynary institution [or an institution or agency of
 2-3     higher education].
 2-4           SECTION 3.  Subchapter D, Chapter 2175, Government Code, is
 2-5     amended by adding Section 2175.1815 to read as follows:
 2-6           Sec. 2175.1815.  EXCEPTION FOR INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER
 2-7     EDUCATION.  This subchapter does not apply to an institution of
 2-8     higher education.  An institution of higher education shall dispose
 2-9     of its surplus and salvage property not transferred to another
2-10     entity under Subchapter C under procedures established by the
2-11     institution.
2-12           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-13           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.