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.