76R7957 CAG-D                          
         By Haywood                                             S.B. No. 979
         Substitute the following for S.B. No. 979:
         By Farabee                                         C.S.S.B. No. 979
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the establishment of a medical services fee at
 1-3     Midwestern State University.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 54.5082 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 54.5082.  MEDICAL SERVICES FEE; MIDWESTERN STATE
 1-8     UNIVERSITY.  (a) The board of regents of Midwestern State
 1-9     University may charge each student registered at the university a
1-10     medical services fee not to exceed $30 for each semester of the
1-11     regular term or 12-week summer session and not to exceed $15 for
1-12     each six-week or shorter term of the summer session.
1-13           (b)  The board may not impose a fee under this section or
1-14     increase the amount of the fee by more than 10 percent in any
1-15     academic year unless the imposition or increase has been approved
1-16     by a majority vote of the students at the institution participating
1-17     in an election called for that purpose.
1-18           (c)  Revenue from a fee imposed under this section may be
1-19     used only to provide medical services to students at the
1-20     university.
1-21           (d)  A fee imposed under this section is in addition to any
1-22     other fee the board is authorized by law to impose.
1-23           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-24     beginning with fees imposed for the 1999 fall semester.
 2-1           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-6     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-7     passage, and it is so enacted.