By:  Armbrister                                        S.B. No. 940
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       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.
1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.
1-22                          COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
1-23           Amend S.B. No. 940 (Senate engrossment) in Section 2 of the
1-24     bill, as follows:
 2-1           (1)  Immediately following the last sentence of the section
 2-2     (page 1, line 12), add the following:
 2-3           Beginning with that semester, an increase in the fee imposed
 2-4     under Section 54.511, Education Code, takes effect only if the fee
 2-5     increase is approved by a vote of the students as required by
 2-6     Section 54.511(b), as amended by this Act.
 2-7                                                                  Rangel