By Lucio                                        S.B. No. 1776

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the exemption of certain employees from the payment of

 1-3     student fees by the governing board of an institution of higher

 1-4     education.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is

 1-7     amended by adding Section 54.546 to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 54.546.  EMPLOYEE EXEMPTION FROM STUDENT FEES.  (a)  The

 1-9     governing board of an institution of higher education may exempt a

1-10     student who is an employee of the institution from the payment of

1-11     all or any portion of a compulsory or voluntary fee imposed by the

1-12     institution granting the exemption.

1-13           (b)  In this section, "compulsory fee" and "voluntary fee"

1-14     have the meanings assigned by Section 54.503.

1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.