By Ogden S.B. No. 806 75R7453 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to compulsory student fees to support intercollegiate 1-3 athletics at a public institution of higher education. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 54, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 54.009 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 54.009. USE OF FEES TO SUPPORT INTERCOLLEGIATE 1-8 ATHLETICS. (a) The governing board of an institution of higher 1-9 education may not use revenue derived from any student fee to 1-10 support intercollegiate athletics unless: 1-11 (1) the institution informs students of the amount 1-12 that will be used to support intercollegiate athletics; and 1-13 (2) if the fee is subject to approval at an election 1-14 of the student body, the ballot expressly states the amount of the 1-15 fee that will be used to support intercollegiate athletics. 1-16 (b) The total amount of student fees that may be used to 1-17 support intercollegiate athletics may not exceed $75 for a semester 1-18 or 12-week summer term or $25 for a summer term shorter than 12 1-19 weeks. 1-20 (c) This section applies to all student fees, including 1-21 student fees adopted or approved before the date this section 1-22 became law, except that a fee approved at an election of the 1-23 student body before the date this section became law is subject to 1-24 Subsection (a)(2) only if the amount of the fee is increased. 2-1 (d) In this section, "student fee" means a charge for a 2-2 compulsory fee charged under Subchapter E. The term does not 2-3 include a voluntary student fee or receipts from athletic events, 2-4 including a charge for admission to an event or for the purchase of 2-5 food, drinks, or other merchandise. 2-6 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 2-7 applies beginning with fees charged for the spring semester of 2-8 1998. 2-9 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.