By Van de Putte                                       H.B. No. 2378
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the collection of medical services fee by components of
    1-3  The University of Texas System.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 2.  Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 54.5089 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 54.5089.  MEDICAL SERVICES FEE; THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
    1-8  SYSTEM COMPONENTS.  (a)  The board of regents of The University of
    1-9  Texas System may charge each student registered at a component
   1-10  institution of The University of Texas System a medical services
   1-11  fee not to exceed $55 for each semester of the regular term or
   1-12  12-week summer session and not to exceed $25 for each six-week or
   1-13  shorter term of the summer session.
   1-14        (b)  Before charging a medical services fee, the board must
   1-15  give students and administrators an opportunity to offer
   1-16  recommendations to the board as to the type and scope of medical
   1-17  services that should be provided.
   1-18        (c)  A medical services fee charged at a component
   1-19  institution of The University of Texas System may be used only to
   1-20  provide medical services to students registered at that component.
   1-21        (d)  A medical services fee charged under this section is in
   1-22  addition to any other fee the board is authorized by law to charge
   1-23  and may not be considered in determining the maximum student
    2-1  services fee that may be charged students enrolled at a component
    2-2  institution of The University of Texas System.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  Section 54.5089, Education Code, as added by this
    2-4  Act, apply beginning with the fall semester in 1993.
    2-5        SECTION 4.  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.