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.