By Dukes                                              H.B. No. 2994
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the Martin Luther King, Jr. statue fee at The
    1-3  University of Texas at Austin.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 54.5133 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 54.5133.  MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. STATUE FEE; THE
    1-8  UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN.  (a)  The board of regents of The
    1-9  University of Texas System may charge and collect from students
   1-10  registered at The University of Texas at Austin a fee of $1 for any
   1-11  semester or summer session.  The fee may be used for funding the
   1-12  construction of a Martin Luther King, Jr. statue on the east mall
   1-13  of the campus of The University of Texas at Austin.
   1-14        (b)  The fees collected shall be deposited into the Martin
   1-15  Luther King, Jr.  statue fee account for the purposes outlined in
   1-16  subsection (a).
   1-17        SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply
   1-18  beginning with the fall semester, 1995.  The fee authorized by Sec.
   1-19  54.5133 expires on August 31, 1999.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-2  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-3  passage, and it is so enacted.