By Maxey H.B. No. 3727
76R9277 KEL-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the election of the student members of the student fees
1-3 advisory committee at The University of Texas at Austin.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 54.514(b) and (g), Education Code, are
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) Five of the members of the student fees advisory
1-8 committee must be student members. The student members must be
1-9 students who are enrolled in not less than six semester hours at
1-10 the university and who are generally representative of the student
1-11 body. The student members [If a student government exists, the
1-12 student members shall be selected by the student government of the
1-13 university. The student members shall be selected and designated
1-14 as appropriate so that three student members on the committee are
1-15 serving terms of two years, and two student members are serving
1-16 terms of one year. If a student government does not exist, the
1-17 students] shall be elected by the students enrolled in the
1-18 university voting in an election held for that purpose. At each
1-19 election, the appropriate number of students shall be elected for
1-20 terms of appropriate length so that three student members on the
1-21 committee are serving terms of two years, and two student members
1-22 are serving terms of one year. At an election at which three
1-23 students are being elected for terms of two years and two students
1-24 are being elected for terms of one year, each candidate must file
2-1 for a one-year or two-year position.
2-2 (g) The [In addition to selecting the student members of the
2-3 student fees advisory committee, the] student government, if one
2-4 exists, is entitled to select the student members of the university
2-5 parking and traffic policies committee established by the president
2-6 of the university. The university parking and traffic policies
2-7 committee shall provide copies of any recommendations it makes
2-8 concerning the setting of student parking fees to the student fees
2-9 advisory committee. The student fees advisory committee may make
2-10 such comments and recommendations to the administration on the
2-11 recommendations of the university parking and traffic policies
2-12 committee as it may wish.
2-13 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act takes effect
2-14 beginning with the 1999 fall semester and applies only to the
2-15 selection of a student member of the student fees advisory
2-16 committee that occurs on or after the date that semester begins.
2-17 The change in law made by this Act does not affect the term of a
2-18 student member of the committee being served on the date that
2-19 semester begins.
2-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-25 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-26 passage, and it is so enacted.