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          By Moreno                                             H.B. No. 1037
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to recreational facility fees at The University of Texas
    1-3  at El Paso.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 54.541 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 54.541.  RECREATIONAL FACILITY FEE; THE UNIVERSITY OF
    1-8  TEXAS AT EL PASO.  (a)  The board of regents of The University of
    1-9  Texas System may charge each student enrolled at The University of
   1-10  Texas at El Paso a recreational facility fee not to exceed $12 for
   1-11  each semester to finance the construction or improvement of student
   1-12  recreational facilities at the university.
   1-13        (b)  The board of regents may pledge the fees levied under
   1-14  this section to pay obligations issued by The University of Texas
   1-15  System for the purposes for which fees may be expended.
   1-16        (c)  The recreational facility fee may not be levied or
   1-17  increased unless the levy of the fee and the amount of the fee is
   1-18  approved by a majority vote of those students participating in a
   1-19  general student election called for that purpose.
   1-20        (d)  If approved in accordance with this section, the board
   1-21  of regents shall collect the recreational facility fees and deposit
   1-22  the fees in an account known as the recreational facility account.
   1-23        (e)  A recreational facility fee charged under this section
   1-24  may not be counted in determining the maximum amount of student
    2-1  services fees that may be charged under Section 54.503(b) of this
    2-2  code.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  Section 54.541, Education Code, as added by this
    2-4  Act, applies beginning with the fall semester 1993.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-10  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-11  passage, and it is so enacted.
   2-12                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
   2-13        Amend H.B. No. 1037 as follows:
   2-14        (1)  On page 1, line 14, strike "by" and substitute "pursuant
   2-15  to the revenue financing system of".
   2-16        (2)  On page 1, line 15, strike "for the purposes for which
   2-17  fees may be expended".
   2-18  73R6075 SOS-D                                                Moreno