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 per credit hour 1-11 per six-week summer session. The fee may be used for financing, 1-12 renovating, operating, maintaining and improving the Gregory 1-13 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) and for the support of recreational sports 1-19 programs and facilities at the university, but may not be collected 1-20 after the twentieth anniversary of the date the fee is first 1-21 collected or after all bonded indebtedness for which the fees are 1-22 pledged is paid, whichever is later. 1-23 (c) A fee under this section may not be collected under this 2-1 section until the semester in which the gymnasium has been 2-2 substantially renovated and the first phase of the renovated 2-3 facility is made available for use. 2-4 (d) The board of regents may pledge fees collected under 2-5 this section for the payment of obligations issued for authorized 2-6 purposes pursuant to the revenue financing system of The University 2-7 of Texas System. 2-8 (e) The fees collected under this section shall not be 2-9 counted in determining the maximum student services fee which may 2-10 be charged to students of The University of Texas at Austin under 2-11 this subchapter. 2-12 SECTION 2. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 2-13 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-18 passage, and it is so enacted.