1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the authority of the board of regents of Texas Woman's
1-3 University to levy fees for student centers.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 54.525(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) The board of regents of Texas Woman's University may
1-8 levy a regular, fixed student fee of not less than $25 or more than
1-9 $40 [not to exceed $20] per student for each semester of the long
1-10 session and of not less than $12.50 or more than $20 [not to exceed
1-11 $10] per student for each term of the summer session, as the board
1-12 determines is just and necessary for the purpose of financing,
1-13 improving, operating, maintaining, and equipping student centers
1-14 and acquiring or constructing additions to student centers.
1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect beginning with the 1999
1-16 fall semester and applies to fees charged on or after that date.
1-17 Fees charged before the 1999 fall semester are governed by the laws
1-18 in effect at the time the fees are charged, and those laws are
1-19 continued in effect for that purpose.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1027 was passed by the House on April
16, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1027 was passed by the Senate on May
26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor