Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 332 amends the Education Code to allow college and university governing boards to charge students at their institutions a fee not to exceed $1 per semester or summer session to be deposited in each institution's Washington, D.C., internship financial aid fund. The imposition of the fee at each campus and any subsequent increase of more than 10 percent in an academic year are subject to approval by a majority vote of the students voting in a referendum on the fee or fee increase, and money in the fund may be used only to assist students participating in an institution's Washington, D.C., internship program. Senate Bill 332 also abolishes the Texas-Washington, D.C., Intern Scholarship Program.

            The act's provisions relating to the imposition of student fees apply beginning with the 1999 fall semester; its repeal of statutory provisions relating to the Texas-Washington, D.C., Intern Scholarship Program takes effect September 1, 1999.