By: Ellis S.B. No. 1367 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the establishment of a medical services fee at Texas 1-2 Southern University. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 54.5222 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 54.5222. MEDICAL SERVICES FEE; TEXAS SOUTHERN 1-7 UNIVERSITY. (a) The board of regents of Texas Southern University 1-8 may levy and collect a medical services fee not to exceed $35 per 1-9 student for each semester of the regular term or $17.50 for each 1-10 term of the summer session from each student enrolled in Texas 1-11 Southern University for the sole purpose of operating, maintaining, 1-12 improving, and equipping a medical service facility at the 1-13 university, acquiring and constructing additions to the medical 1-14 service facility, and providing medical services to students 1-15 registered at the university. A fee collected under this section 1-16 is in addition to any other use or service fee authorized to be 1-17 levied. 1-18 (b) The fees collected under this section shall be deposited 1-19 to the credit of an account known as the "Texas Southern University 1-20 Medical Services Fee Account" and shall be under the control of the 1-21 student fee advisory committee established under Section 54.5031. 1-22 (c) The student fee advisory committee annually shall submit 1-23 to the board of regents a complete and itemized budget for the 2-1 medical service facility with a complete report of all medical 2-2 service activities conducted during the past year and all 2-3 expenditures made in connection with those activities. The board 2-4 of regents may make changes in the budget that the board determines 2-5 are necessary. After approving the budget, the board of regents, 2-6 in accordance with this section, may levy a medical services fee 2-7 for that year in amounts sufficient to meet the budgetary needs of 2-8 the medical service facility. If the budget approved by the board 2-9 contains an expenditure for the construction of a facility, the 2-10 board may contract for the construction of the facility. 2-11 (d) The board may not increase the amount of the medical 2-12 services fee by more than 10 percent in any academic year unless 2-13 the amount of the increase is approved by a majority of the 2-14 students voting in an election held for that purpose or by a 2-15 majority of the student government of the institution. 2-16 (e) A fee levied under this section may not be considered in 2-17 determining the maximum student services fee that may be charged 2-18 under Section 54.503(b). 2-19 (f) Before a fee is initially charged under this section and 2-20 at other times as determined by the board of regents, the board 2-21 shall provide students at the institution and employees of the 2-22 institution an opportunity to make recommendations to the board 2-23 about the type of or scope of services the medical facility should 2-24 offer. 2-25 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 3-1 to a fee imposed for a semester or summer session that begins on or 3-2 after the effective date of this Act. 3-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 3-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 3-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 3-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 3-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 3-9 passage, and it is so enacted.