By Solomons H.B. No. 1027
76R4619 KEL-D
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. Sections 54.525(a) and (b), Education Code, are
1-6 amended to 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 (b) The board may increase a student fee levied under this
1-16 section with the concurrence of the Student Fee Allocation
1-17 Committee or similar entity established to advise or assist the
1-18 board in imposing or allocating student fees. [If the increase is
1-19 for more than $3 per fiscal year, a majority of the students voting
1-20 in an election called for that purpose must approve the increase.]
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect beginning with the 1999
1-22 fall semester and applies to fees charged on or after that date.
1-23 Fees charged before the 1999 fall semester are governed by the laws
1-24 in effect at the time the fees are charged, and those laws are
2-1 continued in effect for that purpose.
2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.