1-1 By: Ogden (Senate Sponsor - Turner) H.B. No. 3122 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1995; 1-3 April 24, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Finance; May 16, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 16, 1995, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3122 By: Turner 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to debit cards provided to students of public institutions 1-11 of higher education. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is 1-14 amended by adding Section 51.940 to read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 51.940. STUDENT DEBIT CARDS. (a) This section applies 1-16 only to: 1-17 (1) an institution that is a component of The Texas 1-18 A&M University System; or 1-19 (2) an institution that is a component of the Texas 1-20 State University System. 1-21 (b) The governing board of an institution of higher 1-22 education to which this section applies may establish a program to 1-23 provide students enrolled at the institution with a debit card. 1-24 (c) A student issued a debit card under the program may use 1-25 the card to purchase merchandise or service available through the 1-26 institution or through a person authorized to sell merchandise or 1-27 service at the institution, as determined by the governing board. 1-28 (d) The program must allow a person who is in business to 1-29 sell merchandise or service of the same kind as the merchandise or 1-30 service that a student may purchase under Subsection (c) to 1-31 participate in the program under the same or equivalent terms 1-32 applicable to a person authorized to sell merchandise under 1-33 Subsection (c) and accept a debit card payment from a student to 1-34 whom a debit card has been issued under the program for purchase of 1-35 that merchandise or service. 1-36 (e) An institution of higher education may not administer or 1-37 sponsor a debit card program for students of the institution that 1-38 does not conform to this section. 1-39 (f) In this section: 1-40 (1) "Governing board" and "institution of higher 1-41 education" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003. 1-42 (2) "Person" has the meaning assigned by Section 1-43 1.201, Business & Commerce Code. 1-44 (g) A student debit card program offered by an institution 1-45 of higher education must comply with this section not later than 1-46 August 15, 1996. This subsection expires January 1, 1997. 1-47 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-48 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-49 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-50 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-51 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-52 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-53 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-54 * * * * *