Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 462 amends the Education Code to raise the caps on the medical services fee and the recreation fee charged students at Texas Tech University and to allow the Texas Tech University System board of regents to impose the fees at the system's component institutions. The bill raises the cap on the medical services fee from $55 to $100 per regular semester or 12-week summer session and from $25 to $50 per summer session term of six weeks or less, and it raises the cap on the recreation fee from $25 to $100 per semester and from $12.50 to $50 per six-week summer session term. The bill prohibits the board of regents from increasing the amount of either fee at a component institution by more than 10 percent from one academic year to the next without the approval of a majority of the students voting in an election held for that purpose.

            Senate Bill 462 applies beginning with the 2001 fall semester.