By Harris                                              S.B. No. 149
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to student intercollegiate athletic fees at The University
 1-3     of Texas at Arlington.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 54.5121 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 54.5121.  INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC FEE; THE UNIVERSITY
 1-8     OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON.  (a)  The board of regents of The University
 1-9     of Texas System may impose a mandatory intercollegiate athletics
1-10     fee at The University of Texas at Arlington.  The amount of the fee
1-11     may not exceed $7.75 per semester credit hour for each regular
1-12     semester, unless increased as provided by Subsection (b).  The fee
1-13     may not be imposed unless approved by a majority vote of the
1-14     students participating in a general student election held for that
1-15     purpose.
1-16           (b)  The amount of the fee per semester credit hour may be
1-17     increased from one academic year to the next only if approved by a
1-18     majority vote of the students participating in a general student
1-19     election held for that purpose or, if the amount of the increase
1-20     does not exceed five percent, by the legislative body of the
1-21     student government of the institution.
1-22           (c)  The board of regents may prorate the amount of the fee
1-23     for a summer session.
1-24           (d)  The fee imposed under this section may not be considered
 2-1     in determining the maximum student services fees that may be
 2-2     imposed  under Section 54.503.
 2-3           SECTION 2.   This Act applies beginning with the fall
 2-4     semester of 1999.
 2-5           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11     passage, and it is so enacted.