By Naishtat                                           H.B. No. 3634
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to certain fees charged at certain institutions of higher
 1-3     education.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 54, Education Code, is amended by adding
 1-6     Section 54.5372 to read as follows:
 1-7     Section 54.5372.  AQUATICS CENTER FEE; THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT
 1-8     AUSTIN.  (a)  The board of regents of The University of Texas
 1-9     System may charge each student enrolled at The University of Texas
1-10     at Austin a fee not to exceed $.85 per credit hour per semester.
1-11     The fee may be used for financing, constructing, renovating,
1-12     operating, maintaining, and improving an Aquatics Center at the
1-13     Gregory Gymnasium Complex.
1-14           (b)  The Board of Regents shall prorate the fee allowed under
1-15     this section based on the length of semester or term for which the
1-16     student is enrolled.
1-17           (c)  The university shall collect the fee imposed under this
1-18     section and use it only for the purposes described in this section.
1-19           (d)  A fee under this section may not be collected until the
1-20     semester in which the Aquatics Center has been substantially
1-21     completed and is made available for use.
 2-1           (e)  The board of regents may pledge fees collected under
 2-2     this section for the payment of obligations issued for authorized
 2-3     purposes pursuant to the revenue financing system of The University
 2-4     of Texas System.
 2-5           (f)  The fees collected under this section shall not be
 2-6     counted in determining the maximum student services fee which may
 2-7     be charged to students of The University of Texas at Austin under
 2-8     this subchapter.
 2-9           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with fees due for the
2-10     fall semester, 1999.
2-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-17     passage, and it is so enacted.