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Amend CSSB 62 by adding the following appropriately numbered
SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill
appropriately:
SECTION ___. Section 65.33, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the board may not use
the power of eminent domain to acquire land to be used for a lodging
facility or for parking or a parking structure intended to be used
in connection with the use of the lodging facility if the land has
been used for the same commercial purpose for at least 20 years. In
this subsection, the term "lodging facility" does not include a
dormitory or other student housing facility.