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Amend CSSB 1151 (senate committee printing) in SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Section 51.9315, Education Code (page 1, between lines 33 and 34), by inserting the following subsections and relettering subsequent subsections and cross-references to those subsections accordingly:
(b) An institution of higher education may not designate any area on campus as a free speech zone or otherwise create policies implying that its students expressive activities are restricted to particular areas of campus. An institution of higher education may not, except to provide time, place, or manner restrictions as provided by Subsection (c), restrict the right of students to engage in expression in a student forum.
(c) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), an institution of higher education by rule may maintain and enforce reasonable restrictions on the time, place, and manner of expressive activities on the common outdoor areas of the institution's campus if those restrictions:
(1) are narrowly tailored to serve a significant institutional interest;
(2) employ clear, published, content-neutral, and viewpoint-neutral criteria; and
(3) provide for ample alternative means of expression.