By: Sibley S.B. No. 926
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the medical services fees at certain public
1-2 institutions of higher education.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 54.5081, Education Code,
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) The governing board of the University of North Texas may
1-7 charge each student registered at the university a medical services
1-8 fee not to exceed $50 [$25] for each semester of the regular term
1-9 or 12-week summer session and not to exceed $25 [$12.50] for each
1-10 six-week or shorter term of the summer session.
1-11 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 54.50891, Education Code,
1-12 is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System
1-14 may charge each student registered at a component institution of
1-15 The University of Texas System a medical services fee not to
1-16 exceed:
1-17 (1) $75 [$55] for each semester of the regular term or
1-18 12-week summer session;
1-19 (2) $50 for each summer session shorter than 12 weeks
1-20 but longer than six weeks; and
1-21 (3) $35 [and not to exceed $25] for each six-week or
1-22 shorter term of the summer session.
1-23 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
2-1 to a fee imposed for a semester or summer session that begins on or
2-2 after the effective date of this Act.
2-3 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.