1-1     By:  Haywood                                           S.B. No. 979
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 1999; March 9, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 6, 1999,
 1-4     reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0;
 1-5     April 6, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the adoption of a medical services fee at Midwestern
 1-9     State University.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Section 54.5082 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 54.5082.  MEDICAL SERVICES FEE; MIDWESTERN STATE
1-14     UNIVERSITY.  (a)  The board of regents of Midwestern State
1-15     University may charge each student registered at the university a
1-16     medical services fee not to exceed $30 for each semester of the
1-17     regular term or 12-week summer session and not to exceed $15 for
1-18     each six-week or shorter term of the summer session.  The
1-19     compulsory medical services fee may not be levied unless the levy
1-20     of the fee has been approved by a majority vote of those students
1-21     at Midwestern State University participating in a general student
1-22     election called for that purpose.
1-23           (b)  If, in an academic year, the total compulsory fee
1-24     charged under this section is more than 10 percent higher than the
1-25     compulsory fee charged under this section for the previous academic
1-26     year, the increase does not take effect unless it is approved by a
1-27     majority vote of the students voting in an election held for that
1-28     purpose.
1-29           (c)  A medical services fee charged under this section may be
1-30     used only to provide medical services to students registered at the
1-31     university.
1-32           (d)  A medical services fee charged under this section is in
1-33     addition to any other fee the board is authorized by law to charge.
1-34           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-35     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-36     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-37     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-38     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-39     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-40     passage, and it is so enacted.
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