AN ACT
 1-1     relating to student center fees charged at Texas Tech University.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 54.524, Education Code,
 1-4     is amended to read as follows:
 1-5           (a)  The board of regents of Texas Tech University may levy a
 1-6     regular fixed student fee not to exceed $50 per student for each
 1-7     semester of the long session and not to exceed $25 per student for
 1-8     each term of the summer session, or any fractional part thereof, as
 1-9     may in their discretion be just and necessary for the sole purpose
1-10     of operating, maintaining, and improving the University Center.  If
1-11     approved by a majority vote of those students participating in a
1-12     general election held at the university for that purpose, the
1-13     maximum amount of the fee that may be charged at the university is
1-14     increased to the amount stated on the ballot proposition, not to
1-15     exceed $100 for each semester or term.  Approval as required by
1-16     this subsection of an increase in the maximum amount of the fee
1-17     that may be charged does not affect the application of this
1-18     subsection to an increase in the amount of the fee actually charged
1-19     from one academic year to the next.  The amount of the fee may be
1-20     changed at any time within the limits specified by this subsection
1-21     in order to provide sufficient funds to support the center, but any
1-22     increase in the fee of more than 10 percent from one academic year
1-23     to the next must be approved by a majority vote of those students
1-24     participating in a general election called for that purpose or by a
 2-1     majority vote of the student government.
 2-2           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999 fall
 2-3     semester.
 2-4           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-9     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 562 passed the Senate on
         April 15, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
         the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 28, 1999, by the
         following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 562 passed the House, with
         amendment, on May 25, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 145,
         Nays 0, two present not voting.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor