By De La Garza                                        H.B. No. 1044
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a student union building fee at The University of
    1-3  Texas - Pan American.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 54, Education Code, is amended by adding
    1-6  Section 54.541 to read to follows:
    1-7        Sec. 54.541.  STUDENT UNION BUILDING FEE; THE UNIVERSITY OF
    1-8  TEXAS - PAN AMERICAN.  (a)  The board of regents of The University
    1-9  of Texas System may levy a student union fee, not to exceed $30 per
   1-10  student for each regular semester and $15 per student for each term
   1-11  of the summer session, for the sole purpose of financing,
   1-12  constructing, operating, maintaining, and improving a student union
   1-13  building for The University of Texas-Pan American; provided
   1-14  however, that the fee may not be increased above $20 per student of
   1-15  each regular semester and $10 per student for each term of the
   1-16  summer session unless the increase is approved by a majority vote
   1-17  of those students participating in a general election held for that
   1-18  purpose.  The fees herein authorized to be levied are in addition
   1-19  to any use or service fee now or hereafter authorized to be levied.
   1-20        (b)  Such fees shall be deposited to an account known as "The
   1-21  University of Texas-Pan American Student Union Fee Account" and
   1-22  shall be under the control of and subject to the order of the
   1-23  Student Union Advisory Committee.  The committee shall annually
    2-1  submit to the president of The University of Texas-Pan American a
    2-2  complete and itemized budget to be accompanied by a full and
    2-3  complete report of all activities conducted during the past year
    2-4  and all expenditures made incident thereto.  The president shall
    2-5  submit the budget to the board of regents as part of the
    2-6  institutional budget.  The board of regents shall make such changes
    2-7  in the budget as it deems necessary before approving the budget,
    2-8  and shall then levy the fees, within the limits herein fixed, in
    2-9  such amounts as will be sufficient to meet the budgetary needs of
   2-10  the student union building.
   2-11        SECTION 2.  The fee authorized by this Act becomes effective
   2-12  for the fall semester, 1993, if the fee is approved by majority
   2-13  vote of those students participating in a general election held for
   2-14  that purpose.
   2-15        Section 3.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   2-16  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-21  passage, and it is so enacted.