By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1808
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the international education fee at The University of
1-2 Texas at Austin.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 54.5131, Education Code,
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System
1-7 may charge and collect from students registered at The University
1-8 of Texas at Austin a fee of $2 if approved by the students in a
1-9 student referendum [$1] for any semester or summer session. The
1-10 fee may be increased to an amount not to exceed $4 if approved by
1-11 the students in a student referendum. The fee may be used only for
1-12 funding an international education program [financial aid fund] to
1-13 be used to assist students participating in international student
1-14 exchange or study programs.
1-15 SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act to Section
1-16 54.5131, Education Code, apply beginning with the fall semester,
1-17 1997.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.