By Moncrief S.B. No. 332 76R4452 JSA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to authorizing institutions of higher education to impose 1-3 a fee to support Washington, D.C., internships and abolishing the 1-4 Texas-Washington, D.C., intern scholarship program. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 54.5134 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 54.5134. WASHINGTON, D.C., INTERNSHIP EDUCATION FEE. 1-9 (a) The governing board of an institution of higher education may 1-10 charge and collect from each student registered at the institution 1-11 a fee in an amount not to exceed $1 for each semester or summer 1-12 session. 1-13 (b) Revenue from a fee imposed under this section shall be 1-14 deposited in a fund established by the institution outside the 1-15 state treasury and identified as the institution's Washington, 1-16 D.C., internship financial aid fund. Money in the fund may be used 1-17 only to assist a student participating in a Washington, D.C., 1-18 internship program administered, sponsored, or approved by the 1-19 institution. 1-20 (c) The fund shall be used in accordance with guidelines 1-21 jointly developed by the student governing body of the institution 1-22 and the administration of the institution. If the institution does 1-23 not have a student governing body, the president may appoint a 1-24 committee of students to assist with the development of the 2-1 guidelines. 2-2 (d) A fee imposed under this section may not be considered 2-3 in determining the maximum amount of student services fees that may 2-4 be charged a student enrolled at the institution under Section 2-5 54.503(b). 2-6 SECTION 2. (a) Subchapter L, Chapter 56, Education Code, is 2-7 repealed. 2-8 (b) The repeal made by this section does not affect a grant 2-9 awarded under that subchapter before the effective date of this 2-10 section or the completion of the internship pursuant to the grant, 2-11 and the repealed law remains in effect for that purpose. 2-12 SECTION 3. (a) Section 1 of this Act applies beginning with 2-13 the 1999 fall semester. 2-14 (b) Section 2 of this Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-15 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its 2-21 terms, and it is so enacted.