By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1765 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to certain fees charged at certain institutions of higher 1-2 education. 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 54.5372 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 54.5372. AQUATICS CENTER FEE; THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS 1-7 AT AUSTIN. (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas 1-8 System may charge each student enrolled at The University of Texas 1-9 at Austin a fee not to exceed 85 cents per credit hour per 1-10 semester. The fee may be used for financing, constructing, 1-11 renovating, operating, maintaining, and improving an aquatics 1-12 center at the Gregory Gymnasium complex. 1-13 (b) The board of regents shall prorate the fee allowed under 1-14 this section based on the length of the semester or term for which 1-15 the student is enrolled. 1-16 (c) The university shall collect the fee imposed under this 1-17 section and use it only for the purposes described in this section. 1-18 (d) A fee under this section may not be collected until the 1-19 semester in which the aquatics center has been substantially 1-20 completed and is made available for use. 1-21 (e) The board of regents may pledge fees collected under 1-22 this section for the payment of obligations issued for authorized 1-23 purposes pursuant to the revenue financing system of The University 1-24 of Texas System. 2-1 (f) The fees collected under this section shall not be 2-2 counted in determining the maximum student services fee which may 2-3 be charged to students of The University of Texas at Austin under 2-4 this subchapter. 2-5 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with fees due for the 2-6 1999 fall semester. 2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-13 passage, and it is so enacted.