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By: Hodge 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 municipality that has [with] a population of more 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 that has [with] a population of more than one million and that elects all or part of the municipality's governing body from election districts, 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.