1-1 By: Shapiro S.B. No. 335
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 11, 1993; February 15, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
1-4 February 25, 1993, rereferred to Committee on Education;
1-5 March 10, 1993, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
1-6 vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 10, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Ratliff x
1-10 Haley x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Harris of Tarrant x
1-14 Luna x
1-15 Montford x
1-16 Shapiro x
1-17 Sibley x
1-18 Turner x
1-19 Zaffirini x
1-20 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Shapiro
1-21 Amend S.B. No. 335 in SECTION 1, Section 54.516(a), Education
1-22 Code (page 1, lines 41-43), by striking "the student government at
1-23 the university or, if no student government exists at the
1-24 university, a majority vote of".
1-25 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-26 AN ACT
1-27 relating to student union fees at East Texas State University.
1-28 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-29 SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (b), Section 54.516,
1-30 Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-31 (a) The board of regents of East Texas State University may
1-32 levy a regular fixed student fee not to exceed $40 <$15> per
1-33 student for each semester of the long session and not to exceed $20
1-34 <$7.50> per student for each term of the summer school, or any
1-35 fractional part thereof, as may in their discretion be just and
1-36 necessary for the sole purpose of financing, constructing,
1-37 operating, maintaining, and improving the Union Center Building.
1-38 The amount of the fee may be changed at any time within the limits
1-39 specified in order that sufficient funds to support the Union
1-40 Center Building may be raised, but any increase in the fee must be
1-41 approved by a majority vote of the student government at the
1-42 university or, if no student government exists at the university, a
1-43 majority vote of those students participating in a general election
1-44 called for that purpose. The fees herein authorized to be levied
1-45 should be in addition to any use fee and service fee now or
1-46 hereafter levied in accordance with law. No state funds may be
1-47 expended for use of the Union Center Building.
1-48 (b) The fiscal officer <business manager> of East Texas
1-49 State University shall collect the fees provided for in this
1-50 section and shall credit the money received from the fees to an
1-51 account known as the Union Center Building Account.
1-52 SECTION 2. Section 54.516, Education Code, as amended by
1-53 this Act, applies only to student union fees at East Texas State
1-54 University that become due beginning with the fall semester in
1-55 1993. Student union fees that became due before that semester are
1-56 governed by the law in effect at the time those fees became due,
1-57 and that law is continued in effect for this purpose only.
1-58 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-59 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-60 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-61 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-62 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-63 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-64 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-65 * * * * *
1-66 Austin,
1-67 Texas
1-68 March 10, 1993
2-1 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-2 President of the Senate
2-3 Sir:
2-4 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred S.B. No. 335,
2-5 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-6 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-7 pass, as amended, and be printed.
2-8 Ratliff,
2-9 Chairman
2-10 * * * * *
2-11 WITNESSES
2-12 FOR AGAINST ON
2-13 ___________________________________________________________________
2-14 Name: Jeremy Hickman x
2-15 Representing: East Tx State University
2-16 City: Commerce
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2-18 Name: Charles Morrow x
2-19 Representing: East Tx State University
2-20 City: Commerce
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2-22 Name: Jerry D. Morris x
2-23 Representing: East Tx State University
2-24 City: Commerce
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