By: Perry  S.B. No. 1033
         (In the Senate - Filed February 22, 2017; March 6, 2017,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;
  March 15, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
  Nays 0; March 15, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to authorization for the conveyance of certain real
  property from Texas Tech University to Texas Tech University Health
  Sciences Center.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 109, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 109.0541 to read as follows:
         Sec. 109.0541.  AUTHORIZATION FOR CONVEYANCE OF CERTAIN
  TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY REAL PROPERTY TO TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH
  SCIENCES CENTER. Notwithstanding Section 109.054, the board may
  execute a conveyance of real property that is part of the original
  main campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Lubbock County, to
  Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center under terms and
  conditions that the board determines are in the best interest of
  both institutions. The transaction must be in the form of an
  agreement and appropriate conveyancing documents between the two
  institutions.
         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, 2017.
 
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