By: Dutton H.B. No. 506 73R2343 SOS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to fines collected for parking violations at public 1-3 institutions of higher education. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 51.206, Education Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 51.206. Parking and Traffic Tickets; Summons; Arrest 1-8 Warrants; STUDENT ACTIVITIES FUND. (a) In connection with traffic 1-9 and parking violations, only the officers authorized to enforce the 1-10 provisions of this subchapter have the authority to issue and use 1-11 traffic tickets and summons of the type used by the Texas Highway 1-12 Patrol, with any changes that are necessitated by reason of this 1-13 subchapter. On the issuance of any parking or traffic ticket or 1-14 summons, the same procedures shall be followed as prevail in 1-15 connection with the use of parking and traffic violation tickets by 1-16 the cities of this state and the Texas Highway Patrol. Nothing in 1-17 this subchapter restricts the application and use of regular arrest 1-18 warrants. 1-19 (b) The governing board of each institution of higher 1-20 education, as defined by Section 61.003 of this code, shall 1-21 establish a student activities fund outside the state treasury for 1-22 use as directed by the governing board for the benefit of students 1-23 enrolled at the institution. Except for a fine collected as a 1-24 result of a court action under Section 105.93(b) or 107.83(b) of 2-1 this code, a fine collected for a parking violation that occurs on 2-2 the property of an institution of higher education shall be 2-3 deposited in the student activities fund. 2-4 SECTION 2. (a) Not later than January 1, 1994, the 2-5 governing board of each public institution of higher education 2-6 shall establish a student activities fund as required by Section 2-7 51.206, Education Code, as amended by this Act. 2-8 (b) Section 51.206, Education Code, as amended by this Act, 2-9 applies only to a fine for a parking violation that is collected on 2-10 or after January 1, 1994. 2-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-17 passage, and it is so enacted.