By:  Corte                                            H.B. No. 1333
       73R5870 SOS-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a recreational facility fee at The University of Texas
    1-3  at San Antonio.
    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 SAN ANTONIO.  (a)  The board of regents of The University
    1-9  of Texas System may charge each student enrolled at The University
   1-10  of Texas at San Antonio a recreational facility fee not to exceed
   1-11  $30 for each semester of the regular term or summer session to
   1-12  finance, construct, operate, maintain, or improve student
   1-13  recreational facilities at the university.
   1-14        (b)  The board of regents may pledge the fees charged under
   1-15  this section to pay obligations issued pursuant to the revenue
   1-16  financing system of The University of Texas System.
   1-17        (c)  The recreational facility fee may not be charged unless
   1-18  the charging of the fee is approved by a majority vote of those
   1-19  students participating in a general student election called for
   1-20  that purpose.
   1-21        (d)  If approved in accordance with this section, the board
   1-22  of regents shall collect the recreational facility fees and deposit
   1-23  the fees in an account known as the recreational facility account.
   1-24        (e)  A recreational facility fee charged under this section
    2-1  may not be counted in determining the maximum amount of student
    2-2  services fees that may be charged under Section 54.503(b) of this
    2-3  code.
    2-4        (f)  The board of regents may permit a person who is not
    2-5  enrolled at The University of Texas at San Antonio to use a
    2-6  facility financed with recreational facility fees if:
    2-7              (1)  the person's use of the facility will not
    2-8  materially interfere with student demand or use;
    2-9              (2)  the person is charged a fee that is not less than
   2-10  the student fee and that is not less than the direct and indirect
   2-11  cost to the university of providing for the person's use; and
   2-12              (3)  the person's use will not materially increase the
   2-13  potential liability of the university.
   2-14        SECTION 2.  Section 54.541, Education Code, as added by this
   2-15  Act, applies beginning with the fall semester in 1993.
   2-16        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-22  passage, and it is so enacted.