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. 1-41 * * * * *