1-1 By: Duncan (Senate Sponsor - Montford) H.B. No. 1510
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1995;
1-3 May 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
1-4 May 16, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 12,
1-5 Nays 0; May 16, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the fee for the university center at Texas Tech
1-9 University.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 54.524(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 (a) The board of regents of Texas Tech University may levy a
1-14 regular fixed student fee not to exceed $50 <$20> per student for
1-15 each semester of the long session and not to exceed $25 <$10> per
1-16 student for each term of the summer session, or any fractional part
1-17 thereof, as may in their discretion be just and necessary for the
1-18 sole purpose of operating, maintaining, and improving the
1-19 University Center. The amount of the fee may be changed at any
1-20 time within the limits specified in order to provide sufficient
1-21 funds to support the center, but any increase in the <initial> fee
1-22 of more than 10 percent from one academic year to the next must be
1-23 approved by a majority vote of those students participating in a
1-24 general election called for that purpose or by a majority vote of
1-25 the student government.
1-26 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with fees due for the
1-27 fall semester of 1995.
1-28 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-33 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-34 passage, and it is so enacted.
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