By Hinojosa                                            H.B. No. 529
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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 54.5034 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.