AN ACT
 1-1     relating to student fees for bus services at Southwest Texas State
 1-2     University.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 54.511, Education Code,
 1-5     is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (b)  Not more than once in an academic year, the board may
 1-7     increase the fee authorized in Subsection (a)  of this section for
 1-8     the purpose of covering increased operating costs of the bus
 1-9     service. Any increase in the fee must be approved by a majority
1-10     vote of those students participating in a general election called
1-11     for that purpose.  However, the total fee may not exceed $46 [$30]
1-12     per semester or $23 [$15] per six-week summer term.
1-13           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-14     beginning with fees imposed in the 1999 fall semester.  Beginning
1-15     with that semester, an increase in the fee imposed under Section
1-16     54.511, Education Code, as amended by this Act, takes effect only
1-17     if the fee increase is approved by a vote of the students as
1-18     required by Subsection (b) of that section.
1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.
         _______________________________     _______________________________
             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 940 passed the Senate on
         April 15, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
         the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 17, 1999, by the
         following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 940 passed the House, with
         amendment, on May 11, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 148,
         Nays 0, two present not voting.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
         _______________________________
                   Governor