1-1     By:  Solomons, Denny (Senate Sponsor - Haywood)       H.B. No. 1027
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
 1-3     April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Education; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the authority of the board of regents of Texas Woman's
 1-9     University to levy fees for student centers.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 54.525(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           (a)  The board of regents of Texas Woman's University may
1-14     levy a regular, fixed student fee of not less than $25 or more than
1-15     $40 [not to exceed $20] per student for each semester of the long
1-16     session and of not less than $12.50 or more than $20 [not to exceed
1-17     $10] per student for each term of the summer session, as the board
1-18     determines is just and necessary for the purpose of financing,
1-19     improving, operating, maintaining, and equipping student centers
1-20     and acquiring or constructing additions to student centers.
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
1-25     continued in effect for that purpose.
1-26           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-27     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-28     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-29     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-30     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-31     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-32     passage, and it is so enacted.
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