By:  Oakley                                            H.B. No. 523
       73R2886 SOS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to student union fees at East Texas State University.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Sections 54.516(a) and (b),  Education Code, are
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  The board of regents of East Texas State University may
    1-7  levy a regular fixed student fee not to exceed $40 <$15> per
    1-8  student for each semester of the long session and not to exceed $20
    1-9  <$7.50> per student for each term of the summer school, or any
   1-10  fractional part thereof, as may in their discretion be just and
   1-11  necessary for the sole purpose of financing, constructing,
   1-12  operating, maintaining, and improving the Union Center Building.
   1-13  The amount of the fee may be changed at any time within the limits
   1-14  specified in order that sufficient funds to support the Union
   1-15  Center Building may be raised, but any increase in the fee must be
   1-16  approved by a majority vote of the student government at the
   1-17  university or, if no student government exists at the university, a
   1-18  majority vote of those students participating in a general election
   1-19  called for that purpose.  The fees herein authorized to be levied
   1-20  should be in addition to any use fee and service fee now or
   1-21  hereafter levied in accordance with law.  No state funds may be
   1-22  expended for use of the Union Center Building.
   1-23        (b)  The fiscal officer <business manager> of East Texas
   1-24  State University shall collect the fees provided for in this
    2-1  section and shall credit the money received from the fees to an
    2-2  account known as the Union Center Building Account.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  Section 54.516, Education Code, as amended by
    2-4  this Act, applies only to student union fees at East Texas State
    2-5  University that become due beginning with the fall semester in
    2-6  1993.  Student union fees that became due before that semester are
    2-7  governed by the law in effect at the time those fees became due,
    2-8  and that law is continued in effect for this purpose only.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-14  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-15  passage, and it is so enacted.