S.B. No. 615
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to a recreational facility fee at The University of Texas
    1-2  at El Paso.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Section 54.541 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 54.541.  RECREATIONAL FACILITY FEE; THE UNIVERSITY OF
    1-7  TEXAS AT EL PASO.  (a)  The board of regents of The University of
    1-8  Texas System may charge each student enrolled at The University of
    1-9  Texas at El Paso a recreational facility fee not to exceed $12 per
   1-10  student per semester or summer session.  The fee may be used only
   1-11  for financing, constructing, operating, maintaining, and improving
   1-12  new and existing recreational sports facilities and programs at The
   1-13  University of Texas at El Paso.
   1-14        (b)  The board of regents is authorized to pledge the fees
   1-15  levied under this section for the payment of obligations issued for
   1-16  authorized purposes pursuant to the revenue financing system of The
   1-17  University of Texas System.
   1-18        (c)  The recreational facility fee may not be levied unless
   1-19  the fee is approved and the amount of the fee is set by majority
   1-20  vote of those students participating in a general student election
   1-21  called at The University of Texas at El Paso for that purpose.
   1-22        (d)  The University of Texas at El Paso shall collect the
   1-23  recreational facility fee and deposit the money collected in an
    2-1  account to be known as The University of Texas at El Paso
    2-2  recreational facility account.
    2-3        (e)  The recreational facility fee is not counted in
    2-4  determining the maximum amount of student services fees which may
    2-5  be charged under Section 54.503 of this code, as amended.
    2-6        SECTION 2.  Section 54.541, Education Code, as added by this
    2-7  Act, applies beginning with the fall semester in 1993.
    2-8        SECTION 3.  All recreational facilities fees approved by a
    2-9  majority vote of those students participating in a general student
   2-10  election called at The University of Texas at El Paso for that
   2-11  purpose before the effective date of this Act are validated,
   2-12  ratified, and confirmed as they were adopted in compliance with
   2-13  this Act.
   2-14        SECTION 4.  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.