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.