By Haggerty                                           H.B. No. 3571
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3571:
         By Rangel                                         C.S.H.B. No. 3571
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to student fees at The University of Texas at El Paso.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 54.503(b), Education Code, is amended to
 1-5     read as follows:
 1-6           (b)  The governing board of an institution of higher
 1-7     education may charge and collect from students registered at the
 1-8     institution fees to cover the cost of student services.  The fee or
 1-9     fees may be either voluntary or compulsory as determined by the
1-10     governing board.  The total of all compulsory student services fees
1-11     collected from a student at an institution of higher education
1-12     other than The University of Texas at Austin or a component
1-13     institution of the University of Houston System for any one
1-14     semester or summer session shall not exceed $150.  If approved by a
1-15     majority vote of those students participating in a general election
1-16     called for that purpose, the total of all compulsory student
1-17     services fees that may be collected from a student at The
1-18     University of Texas at El Paso may be increased to an amount not
1-19     exceed $250.  Approval at the election of an increase in the total
1-20     fees that may be collected from a student at The University of
1-21     Texas at El Paso does not affect the application of Subsection (f)
1-22     to an increase in the total fees actually charged from one year to
1-23     the next.  All compulsory student services fees charged and
1-24     collected under this section by the governing board of an
 2-1     institution of higher education, other than a public junior
 2-2     college, shall be assessed in proportion to the number of semester
 2-3     credit hours for which a student registers.  No portion of the
 2-4     compulsory fees collected may be expended for parking facilities or
 2-5     services, except as related to providing shuttle bus services.
 2-6           SECTION 2.  Section 54.535(a), Education Code, is amended to
 2-7     read as follows:
 2-8           (a)  The board of regents of The University of Texas System
 2-9     may levy a student union fee not to exceed $30 per student for each
2-10     regular semester or each summer session of six weeks or more, and
2-11     not to exceed $15 per student for each [term of the] summer session
2-12     of less than six weeks, for the sole purpose of financing,
2-13     constructing, operating, maintaining, and improving a student union
2-14     building for The University of Texas at El Paso; provided, however,
2-15     that the fee may not be increased above $15 per student for each
2-16     regular semester or each summer session of six weeks or more and
2-17     $7.50 per student for each [term of the] summer session of less
2-18     than six weeks unless the increase is approved by a majority vote
2-19     of those students participating in a general election.  The fees
2-20     herein authorized to be levied are in addition to any use or
2-21     service fee now or hereafter authorized to be levied.
2-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-27     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 3-1     passage, and it is so enacted.