By Hinojosa                                           H.B. No. 1131
         76R2435 CAG-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to funding women's athletic programs within The University
 1-3     of Texas System.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 65, Education Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 65.47 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 65.47. SUPPORT OF WOMEN'S ATHLETICS.  (a)  The board
 1-8     shall impose a fee of $1 to be added to the admission charge for
 1-9     any intercollegiate athletic event held on the campus of or on
1-10     other property under the control of any component institution of
1-11     higher education of the system. The board shall adopt rules
1-12     relating to the collection and administration of the fee imposed
1-13     under this section.
1-14           (b)  The money collected from the fee must be used by the
1-15     system to support women's athletics at component institutions of
1-16     the system.
1-17           (c)  The board shall distribute the money collected under
1-18     this section among the component institutions in proportion to the
1-19     number of women competing in intercollegiate athletics at each of
1-20     those institutions.
1-21           (d)  Money distributed to an institution under this section
1-22     may be used by the institution for scholarships, equipment,
1-23     facilities, travel, lodging, or training for women's
1-24     intercollegiate athletics at the institution.
 2-1           (e)  An institution may not reduce the amount of other money
 2-2     the institution spends to support women's intercollegiate athletics
 2-3     as a result of the institution's receipt of money under this
 2-4     section.
 2-5           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
 2-6     applies only to a ticket sale or other admission charge to an
 2-7     intercollegiate athletic event if the ticket sale is made or the
 2-8     admission charge is collected on or after the effective date of
 2-9     this Act.
2-10           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.