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 Section 54.516, Education Code, is repealed.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.
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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.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor