By:  Barrientos                                       S.B. No. 1765
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                                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.  Chapter 54, Education Code, is amended by adding
 1-5     Section 54.5372 to read as follows:
 1-6     Section 54.5372.  AQUATICS CENTER FEE; THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT
 1-7     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 per credit hour per semester.
1-10     The fee may be used for financing, constructing, renovating,
1-11     operating, maintaining, and improving an Aquatics Center at the
1-12     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 semester or term for which the
1-15     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
 2-1     purposes pursuant to the revenue financing system of The University
 2-2     of Texas System.
 2-3           (f)  The fees collected under this section shall not be
 2-4     counted in determining the maximum student services fee which may
 2-5     be charged to students of The University of Texas at Austin under
 2-6     this subchapter.
 2-7           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with fees due for the
 2-8     fall semester, 1999.
 2-9           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-14     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-15     passage, and it is so enacted.