1-1     By:  Harris, West                                      S.B. No. 149
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 13, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
 1-4     April 6, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 6, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 149                     By:  West
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to student intercollegiate athletic fees at The University
1-11     of Texas at Arlington.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
1-14     amended by adding Section 54.5121 to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 54.5121.  INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC FEE; THE UNIVERSITY
1-16     OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON.  (a)  The board of regents of The University
1-17     of Texas System may impose a mandatory intercollegiate athletics
1-18     fee at The University of Texas at Arlington.  The amount of the fee
1-19     may not exceed $7.75 per semester credit hour for each regular
1-20     semester, unless increased as provided by Subsection (b).  The fee
1-21     may not be imposed unless approved by a majority vote of the
1-22     students participating in a general student election held for that
1-23     purpose.
1-24           (b)  The amount of the fee per semester credit hour may be
1-25     increased from one academic year to the next only if approved by a
1-26     majority vote of the students participating in a general student
1-27     election held for that purpose or, if the amount of the increase
1-28     does not exceed five percent, by the legislative body of the
1-29     student government of the university.
1-30           (c)  The board of regents may prorate the amount of the fee
1-31     for a summer session.
1-32           (d)  The fee imposed under this section may not be considered
1-33     in determining the maximum student services fees that may be
1-34     imposed under Section 54.503.
1-35           (e)  If a mandatory intercollegiate athletic fee in an amount
1-36     within the limit provided by Subsection (a) was approved by a
1-37     majority vote of the students participating in a general student
1-38     election at the university not more than two years before the
1-39     effective date of this section, the board of regents may impose the
1-40     fee without calling an additional election under Subsection (a).
1-41     This subsection expires January 1, 2001.
1-42           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the fall semester
1-43     of 1999.
1-44           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-45     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-46     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-47     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-48     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-49     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-50     passage, and it is so enacted.
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