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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