1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to student center complex fees for institutions in The

 1-3     Texas A&M University System.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 54.521(a), Education Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  The board of regents of The Texas A & M University

 1-8     System may levy a regular, fixed student fee on each student

 1-9     enrolled in an educational institution within The Texas A & M

1-10     University System for the purpose of producing revenue for

1-11     operating, maintaining, improving, and equipping the institution's

1-12     student center complex and acquiring or constructing additions to

1-13     the complex.  The board may set fees in amounts it considers just

1-14     and necessary but not to exceed $40 [$30] per student for each

1-15     semester for the long session and not to exceed $20 [$15] per

1-16     student for each term of the summer  session, or any fractional

1-17     part of a session.  The activities of the student center complex

1-18     that may be financed in whole or in part by the student center

1-19     complex fee are limited to those activities in which the entire

1-20     student body is eligible to participate.  The financed activities

1-21     may not be held outside the territorial limits of any educational

1-22     institution within The Texas A & M University System.

1-23           SECTION 2.  Section 54.516, Education Code, is repealed.

1-24           SECTION 3.  The amendment of Section 54.521(a), Education

 2-1     Code, made by this Act and the repeal of Section 54.516, Education

 2-2     Code, by this Act apply only to fees levied at institutions within

 2-3     The Texas A&M University System beginning with the fall semester of

 2-4     1997.  Fees that became due before that semester are governed by

 2-5     the law in effect at the time those fees became due, and that law

 2-6     is continued in effect for that purpose.

 2-7           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-8     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

         _______________________________     _______________________________

             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3271 was passed by the House on May

         2, 1997, by a non-record vote.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3271 was passed by the Senate on May

         19, 1997, by a viva-voce vote.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

                    _____________________

                          Governor