Enrolled Bill Summary

            House Bill 462 amends the Education Code to raise the cap on the medical services fee that is charged students at the University of North Texas and to allow the University of North Texas System board of regents to impose that fee at other component institutions of the system. The bill raises the cap from $25 to $75 per regular semester or 12-week summer session and from $12.50 to $37.50 per six-week or shorter summer session, but it makes any increase of more than 10 percent from one academic year to the next at a component institution subject to approval by a majority of the students voting at an election held for that purpose. The bill includes a temporary provision prohibiting an increase in the fee above $30 for the 2001 fall semester unless the increase is approved by a majority vote at a student referendum on the amount of the increase.

            House Bill 462 applies beginning with the 2001 fall semester.