By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1302 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to a gymnasium renovation fee at The University of Texas 1-2 at Austin. 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 54.5371 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 54.5371. GREGORY GYMNASIUM RENOVATION FEE; THE 1-7 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN. (a) The board of regents of The 1-8 University of Texas System may charge each student enrolled at The 1-9 University of Texas at Austin a fee not to exceed $1.90 per credit 1-10 hour per semester or 12-week summer session or 95 cents per credit 1-11 hour per six-week summer session. The fee may be used for 1-12 financing, renovating, operating, maintaining, and improving the 1-13 Gregory Gymnasium. 1-14 (b) The university shall collect the gymnasium renovation 1-15 fee imposed under this section and deposit the money collected in 1-16 an account to be known as the Gregory Gymnasium renovation account. 1-17 The money collected shall be used only for the purposes described 1-18 in Subsection (a) of this section. 1-19 (c) A fee under this section may not be collected under this 1-20 section until the semester in which the gymnasium has been 1-21 substantially renovated and the first phase of the renovated 1-22 facility is made available for use. 1-23 (d) The board of regents may pledge fees collected under 2-1 this section for the payment of obligations issued for authorized 2-2 purposes pursuant to the revenue financing system of The University 2-3 of Texas System. 2-4 (e) The fees collected under this section shall not be 2-5 counted in determining the maximum student services fee which may 2-6 be charged to students of The University of Texas at Austin under 2-7 this subchapter. 2-8 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.