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  By: Hodge H.B. No. 95
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 95:
 
  By:  Branch C.S.H.B. No. 95
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the authority of certain private institutions of higher
  education to enter into mutual assistance agreements regarding the
  enforcement of state or local law.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 51.2125(a) and (c), Education Code, are
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  This section applies only to a private institution of
  higher education that [has a fall head count enrollment of more than
  10,000 students and that] has under its control and jurisdiction
  property that is contiguous to, or located in any part within the
  boundaries of, a home-rule municipality that has [with] a
  population of 1.18 million or more and is located predominantly in a
  county that has a total area of less than 1,000 square miles [than
  one million]. For purposes of this section, a private institution
  of higher education is a private or independent institution of
  higher education as defined by Section 61.003.
         (c)  A mutual assistance agreement authorized by this
  section may designate the geographic area in which the campus peace
  officers are authorized to provide assistance to the peace officers
  of the municipality, except that if the agreement is entered into
  with a municipality described by Subsection (a) that elects all or
  part of the municipality's governing body from election districts 
  [with a population of more than one million], the designated
  geographic area consists of each of the election districts of the
  municipality's governing body that contains any part of the campus
  of the institution and each of the election districts of the
  governing body that is contiguous to another municipality that
  contains any part of the campus of the institution.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2009.