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

1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.