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.