By:  Shapleigh                                         S.B. No. 746
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to student union fees at The University of Texas at El
 1-2     Paso.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 54.535, Education Code,
 1-5     is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  The board of regents of The University of Texas System
 1-7     may levy a student union fee not to exceed $30 per student for each
 1-8     regular semester or each summer session of six weeks or more, and
 1-9     not to exceed $15 per student for each [term of the] summer session
1-10     of less than six weeks, for the sole purpose of financing,
1-11     constructing, operating, maintaining, and improving a student union
1-12     building for The University of Texas at El Paso; provided, however,
1-13     that the fee may not be increased above $15 per student for each
1-14     regular semester or each summer session of six weeks or more and
1-15     $7.50 per student for each [term of the] summer session of less
1-16     than six weeks unless the increase is approved by a majority vote
1-17     of those students participating in a general election.  The fees
1-18     herein authorized to be levied are in addition to any use or
1-19     service fee now or hereafter authorized to be levied.
1-20           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-2     passage, and it is so enacted.