76R14031 KEL-F                          
         By Duncan                                              S.B. No. 562
         Substitute the following for S.B. No. 562:
         By Rangel                                          C.S.S.B. No. 562
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to student center fees charged at Texas Tech University.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 54.524(a), Education Code, is amended to
 1-5     read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  The board of regents of Texas Tech University may levy a
 1-7     regular fixed student fee not to exceed $50 per student for each
 1-8     semester of the long session and not to exceed $25 per student for
 1-9     each term of the summer session, or any fractional part thereof, as
1-10     may in their discretion be just and necessary for the sole purpose
1-11     of operating, maintaining, and improving the University Center.  If
1-12     approved by a majority vote of those students participating in a
1-13     general election held at the university for that purpose, the
1-14     maximum amount of the fee that may be charged at the university is
1-15     increased to the amount stated on the ballot proposition, not to
1-16     exceed $100 for each semester or term.  Approval as required by
1-17     this subsection of an increase in the maximum amount of the fee
1-18     that may be charged does not affect the application of this
1-19     subsection to an increase in the amount of the fee actually charged
1-20     from one academic year to the next.  The amount of the fee may be
1-21     changed at any time within the limits specified by this subsection
1-22     in order to provide sufficient funds to support the center, but any
1-23     increase in the fee of more than 10 percent from one academic year
1-24     to the next must be approved by a majority vote of those students
 2-1     participating in a general election called for that purpose or by a
 2-2     majority vote of the student government.
 2-3           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999 fall
 2-4     semester.
 2-5           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11     passage, and it is so enacted.