By: Moreno H.B. No. 1037 73R4443 SOS-F 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.