1-1     By:  Sibley                                            S.B. No. 900
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 4, 1999; March 8, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 6, 1999,
 1-4     reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0;
 1-5     April 6, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to student fees at the University of North Texas.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 54.5081, Education Code,
1-11     is amended to read as follows:
1-12           (a)  The [governing] board of regents of the University of
1-13     North Texas may charge each student registered at the university a
1-14     medical services fee not to exceed $50 [$25] for each semester of
1-15     the regular term or 12-week summer session and not to exceed $25
1-16     [$12.50] for each six-week or shorter term of the summer session.
1-17           SECTION 2.  Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
1-18     amended by adding Section 54.5082  to read as follows:
1-19           Sec. 54.5082.  RECREATIONAL FACILITY FEE; UNIVERSITY OF NORTH
1-20     TEXAS.  (a)  The board of regents of the University of North Texas
1-21     may impose a recreational facility fee in an amount not to exceed
1-22     $50 per student for each semester of the regular term or the summer
1-23     session on each student enrolled in the University of North Texas
1-24     for the sole purpose of constructing, operating, maintaining,
1-25     improving, and equipping a recreational facility or program at the
1-26     institution.  A fee imposed under this section is in addition to
1-27     any other use or service fee authorized to be imposed.
1-28           (b)  Revenue from a fee imposed under this section shall be
1-29     deposited to the credit of an account known as the "University of
1-30     North Texas recreational facility fee account" under the control of
1-31     the student fee advisory committee established under Section
1-32     54.5031.
1-33           (c)  The student fee advisory committee annually shall submit
1-34     to the board of regents a complete and itemized budget for the
1-35     recreational facility with a complete report of all recreational
1-36     facility activities conducted during the past year and all
1-37     expenditures made in connection with those activities.  The board
1-38     may make changes in the budget that the board determines are
1-39     necessary.  After approving the budget the board, in accordance
1-40     with this section, may impose the recreational facility fees for
1-41     that year in amounts sufficient to meet the budgetary needs of the
1-42     recreational facility.  If the budget approved by the board
1-43     contains an expenditure for the construction of a facility, the
1-44     board may contract for the construction of the facility.
1-45           (d)  The board may not increase the amount of the
1-46     recreational facility fee by more than 10 percent in any academic
1-47     year unless the amount of the increase is approved by a majority of
1-48     the students voting in an election held for that purpose or by a
1-49     majority vote of the legislative body of the student government of
1-50     the institution.
1-51           (e)  A fee imposed under this section may not be considered
1-52     in determining the maximum student services fees that may be
1-53     imposed  under Section 54.503(b).
1-54           SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-55     beginning with fees imposed for the 1999 fall semester.
1-56           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-57     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-58     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-59     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-60     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-61     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-62     passage, and it is so enacted.
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