Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 1763 amends the Education Code to require public college and university governing boards to prorate student fees charged for a summer session term of nine weeks or less based on the term's length unless the authorizing statute specifies a reduced amount for that term. The act also allows the maximum medical services fee that may be charged at a campus of The University of Texas System to be increased to an amount not to exceed $75 per semester or term, provided the new cap is approved by a majority of students voting in a referendum on the increase and the amount of the new cap is stated in the ballot. Senate Bill 1763 provides that raising the maximum allowable fee does not affect a new requirement added by the act that any increase of more than 10 percent in the actual fee charged must be approved by the student body in a referendum on that increase, and any increase in the fee also must be approved first by a medical services fee committee. The act also allows the fee charged at The University of Texas at Austin for financing of a Student Health Services Building to also be used for student health center operations.

            Senate Bill 1763 applies beginning with fees imposed for the 1999 fall semester.