By:  Zaffirini                                        S.B. No. 1264
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the collection of medical services fee by components of
    1-2  The University of Texas System.
    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 54.5089 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 54.5089.  MEDICAL SERVICES FEE; THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
    1-7  SYSTEM COMPONENTS.  (a)  The board of regents of The University of
    1-8  Texas System may charge each student registered at a component
    1-9  institution of The University of Texas 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 an opportunity to offer
   1-15  recommendations to the board as to the type and scope of medical
   1-16  services that should be provided.
   1-17        (c)  A medical services fee charged at a component
   1-18  institution of The University of Texas System may be used only to
   1-19  provide medical services to students registered at that component.
   1-20        (d)  A medical services fee charged under this section is in
   1-21  addition to any other fee the board is authorized by law to charge
   1-22  and may not be considered in determining the maximum student
   1-23  services fee that may be charged students enrolled at a component
    2-1  institution of The University of Texas System.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  Sections 54.5089, Education Code, as added by
    2-3  this Act, apply beginning with the fall semester in 1993.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
    2-5  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
   2-10  terms, and it is so enacted.