By:  Shapiro                                           S.B. No. 403
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the student union building fees at The University of
    1-2  Texas at Dallas.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 54.531, Education Code, is amended by
    1-5  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        (a)  The board of regents of The University of Texas System
    1-8  may levy a student union fee, not to exceed $60 <$25> per student
    1-9  for each regular semester and not to exceed $40 <$12.50> per
   1-10  student for each term of the summer session, for the sole purpose
   1-11  of financing, constructing, operating, maintaining, and improving a
   1-12  student union building for The University of Texas at Dallas;
   1-13  provided, however, that the fee may not be increased above $40
   1-14  <$15> per student for each regular semester and $26.67 <$7.50> per
   1-15  student for each term of the summer session unless the increase is
   1-16  approved by a majority vote of those students participating in a
   1-17  general election held for that purpose.  The fees herein authorized
   1-18  to be levied are in addition to any use or service fee now or
   1-19  hereafter authorized to be levied.
   1-20        (c)  The board of regents may pledge fees levied under this
   1-21  section to pay obligations issued pursuant to the revenue financing
   1-22  system of The University of Texas System.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  Section 54.531, Education Code, as amended by
   1-24  this Act, applies only to student union fees that become due
    2-1  beginning with the fall semester in 1993.  Student union fees that
    2-2  became due before that semester are governed by the law in effect
    2-3  at the time the fees became due, and that law is continued in
    2-4  effect for that purpose only.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  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,
   2-10  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-11  passage, and it is so enacted.