1-1  By:  Barrientos                                       S.B. No. 1320
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1995; March 20, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Education; March 29, 1995,
    1-4  reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 29, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1320              By:  Barrientos
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to the Martin Luther King, Jr., statue fee at The
   1-10  University of Texas at Austin.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
   1-13  amended by adding Section 54.5133 to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 54.5133.  MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., STATUE FEE; THE
   1-15  UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN.  (a)  The board of regents of The
   1-16  University of Texas System may charge and collect from students
   1-17  registered at The University of Texas at Austin a fee of $1 for any
   1-18  semester or summer session.  The fee shall be used for funding the
   1-19  construction of a Martin Luther King, Jr., statue on the campus of
   1-20  The University of Texas at Austin and to establish Martin Luther
   1-21  King, Jr., student scholarships.
   1-22        (b)  Any funds raised in excess of the cost of the
   1-23  construction of the Martin Luther King, Jr., statue shall be used
   1-24  to establish Martin Luther King, Jr., student scholarships.
   1-25        (c)  The fees collected shall be deposited into the Martin
   1-26  Luther King, Jr., statue fee account for the purposes outlined in
   1-27  Subsections (a) and (b).
   1-28        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-29  beginning with the fall semester, 1995.  The fee authorized by
   1-30  Section 54.5133, Education Code, as added by this Act expires on
   1-31  August 31, 1999.
   1-32        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-33  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-34  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-35  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-36  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-37  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-38  passage, and it is so enacted.
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