1-1 By: Sibley S.B. No. 926
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 4, 1997; March 6, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Finance; March 26, 1997,
1-4 reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 12, Nays 0; March 26, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 926 By: Sibley
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the medical services fees at certain public
1-9 institutions of higher education.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 54.5081, Education Code,
1-12 is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) The governing board of the University of North Texas may
1-14 charge each student registered at the university a medical services
1-15 fee not to exceed $50 [$25] for each semester of the regular term
1-16 or 12-week summer session and not to exceed $25 [$12.50] for each
1-17 six-week or shorter term of the summer session.
1-18 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 54.50891, Education Code,
1-19 is amended to read as follows:
1-20 (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System
1-21 may charge each student registered at a component institution of
1-22 The University of Texas System a medical services fee not to
1-23 exceed:
1-24 (1) $75 [$55] for each semester of the regular term or
1-25 12-week summer session;
1-26 (2) $50 for each summer session shorter than 12 weeks
1-27 but longer than six weeks; and
1-28 (3) $35 [and not to exceed $25] for each six-week or
1-29 shorter term of the summer session.
1-30 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-31 to a fee imposed for a semester or summer session that begins on or
1-32 after the effective date of this Act.
1-33 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-38 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-39 passage, and it is so enacted.
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