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         By Solomons, Denny                                    H.B. No. 1027
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1027:
         By Rangel                                         C.S.H.B. No. 1027
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 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.