By:  Turner                                            S.B. No. 937
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to an increase in the student health center fee at The
    1-2  Texas A&M University System institutions.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 54.507, Higher Education Code, is amended
    1-5  by amending Subsection (a) and by adding Subsection (d) to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        (a)  The Board of Regents of The Texas A&M University System
    1-8  may levy and collect from each student at any institution of higher
    1-9  education which is a part of The Texas A&M University System a
   1-10  compulsory group hospital and medical services fee <of> not to
   1-11  exceed $75 <$25> for each regular semester and not to exceed $25
   1-12  <$12.50> for each term of each summer session.  The compulsory
   1-13  group hospital and medical services fee may not be levied unless
   1-14  the levy of the fee has been approved by a majority vote of those
   1-15  students at the affected institution participating in a general
   1-16  student election called for that purpose.
   1-17        (d)  If, in an academic year, the total compulsory fee
   1-18  charged under this section is more than 10 percent higher than the
   1-19  compulsory fee charged for the previous academic year, the increase
   1-20  does not take effect unless the increase is approved by a majority
   1-21  vote of the students voting in an election held for that purpose or
   1-22  by a majority vote of the student government at the institution.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.