By Price                                              H.B. No. 3177
       74R8828 SMH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the fee for a student center at Lamar University.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 54.517, Education Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 54.517.  Student Center Fees; Lamar University.  The
    1-7  board of regents of the Lamar University System may levy a regular
    1-8  fixed student fee not to exceed $33 <$30> per student for each
    1-9  semester of the long session and not to exceed $16.50 <$15> per
   1-10  student for each term of the summer session, against each student
   1-11  enrolled in Lamar University, as in their discretion may be just
   1-12  and necessary for the purpose of operating, maintaining, improving,
   1-13  and equipping the student center and acquiring or constructing
   1-14  additions to the student center.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with fees due for the
   1-16  fall semester of 1995.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-23  passage, and it is so enacted.