By: Armbrister, Zaffirini S.B. No. 637
Turner, Sims
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the collection of medical services fees by certain
1-2 public institutions of higher education.
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 54.5075 to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 54.5075. MEDICAL SERVICES FEE; THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
1-7 SYSTEM. (a) The board of regents of The Texas A&M University
1-8 System may charge each student registered at a component
1-9 institution of The Texas A&M University System a medical services
1-10 fee not to exceed $55 for each semester of the regular term or
1-11 12-week summer session and not to exceed $25 for each six-week or
1-12 shorter term of the summer session.
1-13 (b) Before charging a medical services fee, the board must
1-14 give students and administrators of the component institution at
1-15 which the medical services fee is to be charged an opportunity to
1-16 offer recommendations to the board as to the type and scope of
1-17 medical services that should be provided.
1-18 (c) A medical services fee charged at a component
1-19 institution of The Texas A&M University System may be used only to
1-20 provide medical services to students registered at that component
1-21 institution.
1-22 (d) A medical services fee charged under this section is in
1-23 addition to any other fee the board is authorized by law to charge
1-24 and may not be considered in determining the maximum student
2-1 services fee that may be charged to students enrolled at a
2-2 component institution of The Texas A&M University System under
2-3 Section 54.503(b) of this code.
2-4 SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
2-5 amended by adding Section 54.5089 to read as follows:
2-6 Sec. 54.5089. MEDICAL SERVICES FEE; TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY
2-7 SYSTEM COMPONENTS. (a) The board of regents of the Texas State
2-8 University System may charge each student registered at a component
2-9 institution of the Texas State University System a medical services
2-10 fee not to exceed $55 for each semester of the regular term or
2-11 12-week summer session and not to exceed $25 for each six-week or
2-12 shorter term of the summer session.
2-13 (b) Before charging a medical services fee, the board must
2-14 give students and administrators an opportunity to offer
2-15 recommendations to the board as to the type and scope of medical
2-16 services that should be provided.
2-17 (c) A medical services fee charged at a component
2-18 institution of the Texas State University System may be used only
2-19 to provide medical services to students registered at that
2-20 component institution.
2-21 (d) A medical services fee charged under this section is in
2-22 addition to any other fee the board is authorized by law to charge
2-23 and may not be considered in determining the maximum student
2-24 services fee that may be charged students enrolled at a component
2-25 institution of the Texas State University System under Section
2-26 54.503(b) of this code.
2-27 SECTION 3. Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
3-1 amended by adding Section 54.50891 to read as follows:
3-2 Sec. 54.50891. MEDICAL SERVICES FEE; THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
3-3 SYSTEM COMPONENTS. (a) The board of regents of The University of
3-4 Texas System may charge each student registered at a component
3-5 institution of The University of Texas System a medical services
3-6 fee not to exceed $55 for each semester of the regular term or
3-7 12-week summer session and not to exceed $25 for each six-week or
3-8 shorter term of the summer session.
3-9 (b) Before charging a medical services fee, the board must
3-10 give students and administrators an opportunity to offer
3-11 recommendations to the board as to the type and scope of medical
3-12 services that should be provided.
3-13 (c) A medical services fee charged at a component
3-14 institution of The University of Texas System may be used only to
3-15 provide medical services to students registered at that component
3-16 institution.
3-17 (d) A medical services fee charged under this section is in
3-18 addition to any other fee the board is authorized by law to charge
3-19 and may not be considered in determining the maximum student
3-20 services fee that may be charged students enrolled at a component
3-21 institution of The University of Texas System.
3-22 SECTION 4. Sections 54.5075, 54.5089, and 54.50891,
3-23 Education Code, as added by this Act, apply beginning with the fall
3-24 semester 1993.
3-25 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
3-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
4-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
4-4 passage, and it is so enacted.