1-1 By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1808
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 28, 1997,
1-4 reported favorably, as amended, by the following vote: Yeas 10,
1-5 Nays 2; April 28, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Truan
1-7 Amend S.B. No. 1808, page 1, line 21, by replacing $4 with $2 and
1-8 adding the following sentence after the word "session." on line 22:
1-9 "The fee may be increased to an amount not to exceed $4 if
1-10 approved by the students in a student referendum."
1-11 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-12 AN ACT
1-13 relating to the international education fee at The University of
1-14 Texas at Austin.
1-15 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-16 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 54.5131, Education Code,
1-17 is amended to read as follows:
1-18 (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System
1-19 may charge and collect from students registered at The University
1-20 of Texas at Austin a fee of $4 [$1] for any semester or summer
1-21 session. The fee may be used only for funding an international
1-22 education program [financial aid fund] to be used to assist
1-23 students participating in international student exchange or study
1-24 programs.
1-25 SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act to Section
1-26 54.5131, Education Code, apply beginning with the fall semester,
1-27 1997.
1-28 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-33 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-34 passage, and it is so enacted.
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