1-1 By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 746
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 26, 1999; March 2, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 6, 1999,
1-4 reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 6, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 746 By: Ogden
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to student union fees at The University of Texas at El
1-10 Paso.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 54.535, Education Code,
1-13 is amended to read as follows:
1-14 (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System
1-15 may levy a student union fee not to exceed $30 per student for each
1-16 regular semester or each summer session of six weeks or more, and
1-17 not to exceed $15 per student for each [term of the] summer session
1-18 of less than six weeks, for the sole purpose of financing,
1-19 constructing, operating, maintaining, and improving a student union
1-20 building for The University of Texas at El Paso; provided, however,
1-21 that the fee may not be increased above $15 per student for each
1-22 regular semester or each summer session of six weeks or more and
1-23 $7.50 per student for each [term of the] summer session of less
1-24 than six weeks unless the increase is approved by a majority vote
1-25 of those students participating in a general election. The fees
1-26 herein authorized to be levied are in addition to any use or
1-27 service fee now or hereafter authorized to be levied.
1-28 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-33 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-34 passage, and it is so enacted.
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