By: Frullo (Senate Sponsor - Perry) H.B. No. 2709
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 8, 2019;
April 9, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher
Education; May 10, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 10, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to authorization for the sale of certain Texas Tech
University property.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 109.054, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 109.054. MANAGEMENT OF LANDS. The board has the sole
and exclusive management and control of lands set aside and
appropriated to or acquired by the institutions under its
governance. The board may lease, sell, exchange, acquire, dispose
of, and otherwise manage, control, and use the lands in any manner
and at prices and under terms and conditions the board deems best
for the interest of the institutions. [However, the board may not
sell any of the original main campus of Texas Tech University
located in Lubbock, Lubbock County, unless the sale is approved by
act of the legislature.] No grazing lease shall be made for a
period of more than five years.
SECTION 2. Section 109.0541, Education Code, is repealed.
SECTION 3. 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, 2019.
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