By:  Armbrister                                        S.B. No. 764
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the recreational sports fee of institutions in the
    1-2  Texas State University System.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Sections 54.538(a), (b), and (c), Education Code,
    1-5  are amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  If approved by student vote at a system institution, the
    1-7  Board of Regents, Texas State University System, may charge each
    1-8  student enrolled at such institution a recreational sports fee not
    1-9  to exceed $50 <$35> per semester or 10-week summer session or $25
   1-10  <$17.50> per five-week summer session.  The fee may be used to
   1-11  purchase equipment for and to construct, operate, and maintain
   1-12  recreational sports facilities and programs at the designated
   1-13  institution <university>.
   1-14        (b)  The recreation fee authorized by this section may not be
   1-15  <levied or> increased more than 10 percent from one academic year
   1-16  to the next unless the <levy of the fee or the> increase has been
   1-17  approved by a majority vote of those students at the affected
   1-18  institution participating in a general student election called for
   1-19  that purpose.  The fee may not exceed the amounts provided by
   1-20  Subsection (a).
   1-21        (c)  Each system institution <university> shall collect any
   1-22  student recreational sports fee imposed under this section and
   1-23  shall deposit the money collected in an account to be known as the
   1-24  student recreational sports account.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  This Act applies to fees due beginning with the
    2-2  fall semester of 1995.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-8  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-9  passage, and it is so enacted.