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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.