1-1     By:  Moncrief                                          S.B. No. 332
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 1, 1999; February 3, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
 1-4     April 7, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 1; April 7, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 332                   By:  Bivins
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to authorizing institutions of higher education to impose
1-11     a fee to support Washington, D.C., internships and abolishing the
1-12     Texas-Washington, D.C., Intern Scholarship Program.
1-13           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-14           SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
1-15     amended by adding Section 54.5134 to read as follows:
1-16           Sec. 54.5134.  WASHINGTON, D.C., INTERNSHIP EDUCATION FEE.
1-17     (a)  The governing board of an institution of higher education may
1-18     charge and collect from each student registered at the institution
1-19     a fee in an amount not to exceed $1 for each semester or summer
1-20     session if imposition of the fee is approved by a majority vote of
1-21     the students of the institution participating in a general student
1-22     election held for that purpose.
1-23           (b)  The amount of the fee imposed at an institution may be
1-24     increased from one academic year to the next by more than 10
1-25     percent only if approved by a majority vote of the students of the
1-26     institution participating in a general student election held for
1-27     that purpose.
1-28           (c)  Revenue from a fee imposed under this section shall be
1-29     deposited in a fund established by the institution outside the
1-30     state treasury and identified as the institution's Washington,
1-31     D.C., internship financial aid fund.  Money in the fund may be used
1-32     only to assist a student participating in a Washington, D.C.,
1-33     internship program administered, sponsored, or approved by the
1-34     institution.
1-35           (d)  The fund shall be used in accordance with guidelines
1-36     jointly developed by the student governing body of the institution
1-37     and the administration of the institution.  If the institution does
1-38     not have a student governing body, the president may appoint a
1-39     committee of students to assist with the development of the
1-40     guidelines.
1-41           (e)  A fee imposed under this section may not be considered
1-42     in determining the maximum amount of student services fees that may
1-43     be charged a student enrolled at the institution under Section
1-44     54.503(b).
1-45           SECTION 2.  (a)  Subchapter L, Chapter 56, Education Code, is
1-46     repealed.
1-47           (b)  The repeal made by this section does not affect a grant
1-48     awarded under that subchapter before the effective date of this
1-49     section or the completion of the internship pursuant to the grant,
1-50     and the repealed law remains in effect for that purpose.
1-51           SECTION 3.  (a)  Section 1 of this Act applies beginning with
1-52     the 1999 fall semester.
1-53           (b)  Section 2 of this Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-54           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-55     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-56     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-57     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-58     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-59     and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
1-60     terms, and it is so enacted.
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