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.