1-1 By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1302
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 23, 1993; March 23, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; March 31, 1993,
1-4 reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; March 31, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Ratliff x
1-9 Haley x
1-10 Barrientos x
1-11 Bivins x
1-12 Harris of Tarrant x
1-13 Luna x
1-14 Montford x
1-15 Shapiro x
1-16 Sibley x
1-17 Turner x
1-18 Zaffirini x
1-19 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1302 By: Barrientos
1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-21 AN ACT
1-22 relating to a gymnasium renovation fee at The University of Texas
1-23 at Austin.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
1-26 amended by adding Section 54.5371 to read as follows:
1-27 Sec. 54.5371. GREGORY GYMNASIUM RENOVATION FEE; THE
1-28 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN. (a) The board of regents of The
1-29 University of Texas System may charge each student enrolled at The
1-30 University of Texas at Austin a fee not to exceed $1.90 per credit
1-31 hour per semester or 12-week summer session or 95 cents per credit
1-32 hour per six-week summer session. The fee may be used for
1-33 financing, renovating, operating, maintaining, and improving the
1-34 Gregory Gymnasium.
1-35 (b) The university shall collect the gymnasium renovation
1-36 fee imposed under this section and deposit the money collected in
1-37 an account to be known as the Gregory Gymnasium renovation account.
1-38 The money collected shall be used only for the purposes described
1-39 in Subsection (a) of this section.
1-40 (c) A fee under this section may not be collected under this
1-41 section until the semester in which the gymnasium has been
1-42 substantially renovated and the first phase of the renovated
1-43 facility is made available for use.
1-44 (d) The board of regents may pledge fees collected under
1-45 this section for the payment of obligations issued for authorized
1-46 purposes pursuant to the revenue financing system of The University
1-47 of Texas System.
1-48 (e) The fees collected under this section shall not be
1-49 counted in determining the maximum student services fee which may
1-50 be charged to students of The University of Texas at Austin under
1-51 this subchapter.
1-52 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-53 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-54 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-55 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-56 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-57 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-58 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-59 * * * * *
1-60 Austin,
1-61 Texas
1-62 March 31, 1993
1-63 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-64 President of the Senate
1-65 Sir:
1-66 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred S.B. No.
1-67 1302, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
1-68 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
2-1 pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
2-2 pass and be printed.
2-3 Ratliff,
2-4 Chairman
2-5 * * * * *
2-6 WITNESSES
2-7 No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 1302.