By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 579
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to a student union building fee at The University of
    1-2  Texas--Pan American.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 54, Education Code, is amended by adding
    1-5  Section 54.541 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 54.541.  STUDENT UNION BUILDING FEE; THE UNIVERSITY OF
    1-7  TEXAS--PAN AMERICAN.  (a)  The board of regents of The University
    1-8  of Texas System may levy a student union fee, not to exceed $30 per
    1-9  student for each regular semester and $15 per student for each term
   1-10  of the summer session, for the sole purpose of financing,
   1-11  constructing, operating, maintaining, and improving a student union
   1-12  building for The University of Texas--Pan American, provided that
   1-13  the fee may not be increased above $20 per student for each regular
   1-14  semester and $10 per student for each term of the summer session
   1-15  unless the increase is approved by a majority vote of those
   1-16  students participating in a general election held for that purpose.
   1-17  The fees herein authorized to be levied are in addition to any use
   1-18  or service fee now or hereafter authorized to be levied.
   1-19        (b)  Such fees shall be deposited to an account known as The
   1-20  University of Texas--Pan American Student Union Fee Account and
   1-21  shall be under the control of and subject to the order of the
   1-22  Student Union Advisory Committee. The committee shall annually
   1-23  submit to the president of The University of Texas--Pan American a
    2-1  complete and itemized budget to be accompanied by a full and
    2-2  complete report of all activities conducted during the past year
    2-3  and all expenditures made incident thereto.  The president shall
    2-4  submit the budget to the board of regents as part of the
    2-5  institutional budget.  The board of regents shall make such changes
    2-6  in the budget as it deems necessary before approving the budget and
    2-7  shall then levy the fees, within the limits herein fixed, in such
    2-8  amounts as will be sufficient to meet the budgetary needs of the
    2-9  student union building.
   2-10        SECTION 2.  The fee authorized by this Act becomes effective
   2-11  for the fall semester, 1993, if the fee is approved by a majority
   2-12  vote of those students participating in a general election held for
   2-13  that purpose.
   2-14        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-20  passage, and it is so enacted.