By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1153 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the purchase of insurance by students enrolled at 1-2 certain institutions of higher education. 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 54.5082 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 54.5082. STUDENT HEALTH INSURANCE. The board of 1-7 regents of The University of Texas System may require each student 1-8 enrolled at an institution within The University of Texas System to 1-9 enroll in a plan of health insurance. The board may waive the 1-10 requirement if the student presents proof of equivalent insurance 1-11 or the financial responsibility to pay for unexpected health or 1-12 medical expenses. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1994. 1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its 1-20 terms, and it is so enacted.