By:  Haywood                                           S.B. No. 979
         99S0645/1                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the adoption of a medical services fee at Midwestern
 1-2     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. 54.508.  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.  The
1-12     compulsory medical services fee may not be levied unless the levy
1-13     of the fee has been approved by a majority vote of those students
1-14     at Midwestern State University participating in a general student
1-15     election called for that purpose.
1-16           (b)  If, in an academic year, the total compulsory fee
1-17     charged under this section is more than 10 percent higher than the
1-18     compulsory fee charged under this section for the previous academic
1-19     year, the increase does not take effect unless it is approved by a
1-20     majority vote of the students voting in an election held for that
1-21     purpose.
1-22           (c)  A medical services fee charged under this section may be
1-23     used only to provide medical services to students registered at the
1-24     university.
 2-1           (d)  A medical services fee charged under this section is in
 2-2     addition to any other fee the board is authorized by law to charge.
 2-3           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-8     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-9     passage, and it is so enacted.