76R14131 E
By Sibley S.B. No. 900
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 900:
By Morrison C.S.S.B. No. 900
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to student fees at the University of North Texas.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 54.5081, Education Code, is amended by
1-5 amending Subsections (a) and (d) and adding Subsection (e) to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (a) The [governing] board of regents of the University of
1-8 North Texas may charge each student registered at the university a
1-9 medical services fee not to exceed $50 [$25] for each semester of
1-10 the regular term or 12-week summer session and not to exceed $25
1-11 [$12.50] for each six-week or shorter term of the summer session.
1-12 (d) The board may not increase the amount of the medical
1-13 services fee by more than 10 percent in any academic year unless
1-14 the increase has been approved by a majority vote of the students
1-15 at the institution participating in an election called for that
1-16 purpose.
1-17 (e) The fee imposed under this section may not be considered
1-18 in determining the maximum student services fee that may be charged
1-19 students enrolled at the university under Section 54.503(b) of this
1-20 code.
1-21 SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
1-22 amended by adding Section 54.5082 to read as follows:
1-23 Sec. 54.5082. RECREATIONAL FACILITY FEE; UNIVERSITY OF NORTH
1-24 TEXAS. (a) The board of regents of the University of North Texas
2-1 may impose a recreational facility fee in an amount not to exceed
2-2 $50 per student for each semester of the regular term or the summer
2-3 session on each student enrolled in the University of North Texas
2-4 for the sole purpose of constructing, operating, maintaining,
2-5 improving, and equipping a recreational facility or program at the
2-6 institution. A fee imposed under this section is in addition to
2-7 any other use or service fee authorized to be imposed.
2-8 (b) Revenue from a fee imposed under this section shall be
2-9 deposited to the credit of an account known as the "University of
2-10 North Texas recreational facility fee account" under the control of
2-11 the student fee advisory committee established under Section
2-12 54.5031.
2-13 (c) The student fee advisory committee annually shall submit
2-14 to the board of regents a complete and itemized budget for the
2-15 recreational facility with a complete report of all recreational
2-16 facility activities conducted during the past year and all
2-17 expenditures made in connection with those activities. The board
2-18 may make changes in the budget that the board determines are
2-19 necessary. After approving the budget the board, in accordance
2-20 with this section, may impose the recreational facility fee for
2-21 that year in an amount sufficient to meet the budgetary needs of
2-22 the recreational facility. If the budget approved by the board
2-23 contains an expenditure for the construction of a facility, the
2-24 board may contract for the construction of the facility.
2-25 (d) The board may not increase the amount of the
2-26 recreational facility fee by more than 10 percent in any academic
2-27 year unless the amount of the increase is approved by a majority of
3-1 the students voting in an election held for that purpose.
3-2 (e) A fee imposed under this section may not be considered
3-3 in determining the maximum student services fees that may be
3-4 imposed under Section 54.503(b).
3-5 SECTION 3. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
3-6 beginning with fees imposed for the 1999 fall semester.
3-7 (b) The change in Section 54.5081(a), Education Code, as
3-8 provided by this Act, takes effect only if the change is approved
3-9 by a majority of the students voting in an election held for that
3-10 purpose.
3-11 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-17 passage, and it is so enacted.