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. 1-61 * * * * *