1-1 By: Berlanga, Seaman, Luna (Senate Sponsor - Truan) H.B. No. 3271
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1997;
1-3 May 6, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
1-4 May 16, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11,
1-5 Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to student center complex fees for institutions in The
1-9 Texas A&M University System.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 54.521(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 (a) The board of regents of The Texas A & M University
1-14 System may levy a regular, fixed student fee on each student
1-15 enrolled in an educational institution within The Texas A & M
1-16 University System for the purpose of producing revenue for
1-17 operating, maintaining, improving, and equipping the institution's
1-18 student center complex and acquiring or constructing additions to
1-19 the complex. The board may set fees in amounts it considers just
1-20 and necessary but not to exceed $40 [$30] per student for each
1-21 semester for the long session and not to exceed $20 [$15] per
1-22 student for each term of the summer session, or any fractional
1-23 part of a session. The activities of the student center complex
1-24 that may be financed in whole or in part by the student center
1-25 complex fee are limited to those activities in which the entire
1-26 student body is eligible to participate. The financed activities
1-27 may not be held outside the territorial limits of any educational
1-28 institution within The Texas A & M University System.
1-29 SECTION 2. Section 54.516, Education Code, is repealed.
1-30 SECTION 3. The amendment of Section 54.521(a), Education
1-31 Code, made by this Act and the repeal of Section 54.516, Education
1-32 Code, by this Act apply only to fees levied at institutions within
1-33 The Texas A&M University System beginning with the fall semester of
1-34 1997. Fees that became due before that semester are governed by
1-35 the law in effect at the time those fees became due, and that law
1-36 is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-37 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-38 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-39 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-40 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-41 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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