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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