By Hinojosa H.B. No. 529 76R2732 KEL-D 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 54.5034 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 54.5034. EMPLOYEE EXEMPTION FROM STUDENT FEES. (a) 1-9 The governing board of an institution of higher education may 1-10 exempt a student who is an employee of the institution from the 1-11 payment of all or any portion of a compulsory or voluntary fee 1-12 imposed by the 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.