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.