AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the establishment of a medical services fee at
 1-2     Midwestern State University.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Section 54.5082 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 54.5082.  MEDICAL SERVICES FEE; MIDWESTERN STATE
 1-7     UNIVERSITY.  (a)  The board of regents of Midwestern State
 1-8     University may charge each student registered at the university a
 1-9     medical services fee not to exceed $30 for each semester of the
1-10     regular term or 12-week summer session and not to exceed $15 for
1-11     each six-week or shorter term of the summer session.
1-12           (b)  The board may not impose a fee under this section or
1-13     increase the amount of the fee by more than 10 percent in any
1-14     academic year unless the imposition or increase has been approved
1-15     by a majority vote of the students at the institution participating
1-16     in an election called for that purpose.
1-17           (c)  Revenue from a fee imposed under this section may be
1-18     used only to provide medical services to students at the
1-19     university.
1-20           (d)  A fee imposed under this section is in addition to any
1-21     other fee the board is authorized by law to impose.
1-22           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-23     beginning with fees imposed for the 1999 fall semester.
1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-5     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-6     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 979 passed the Senate on
         April 15, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
         the Senate concurred in House amendment on April 30, 1999, by the
         following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays 0.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 979 passed the House, with
         amendment, on April 29, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 141,
         Nays 0, two present not voting.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor