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.