1-1 By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1765 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 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 certain fees charged at certain institutions of higher 1-9 education. 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 54.5372 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 54.5372. AQUATICS CENTER FEE; THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS 1-14 AT AUSTIN. (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas 1-15 System may charge each student enrolled at The University of Texas 1-16 at Austin a fee not to exceed 85 cents per credit hour per 1-17 semester. The fee may be used for financing, constructing, 1-18 renovating, operating, maintaining, and improving an aquatics 1-19 center at the Gregory Gymnasium complex. 1-20 (b) The board of regents shall prorate the fee allowed under 1-21 this section based on the length of the semester or term for which 1-22 the student is enrolled. 1-23 (c) The university shall collect the fee imposed under this 1-24 section and use it only for the purposes described in this section. 1-25 (d) A fee under this section may not be collected until the 1-26 semester in which the aquatics center has been substantially 1-27 completed and is made available for use. 1-28 (e) The board of regents may pledge fees collected under 1-29 this section for the payment of obligations issued for authorized 1-30 purposes pursuant to the revenue financing system of The University 1-31 of Texas System. 1-32 (f) The fees collected under this section shall not be 1-33 counted in determining the maximum student services fee which may 1-34 be charged to students of The University of Texas at Austin under 1-35 this subchapter. 1-36 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with fees due for the 1-37 1999 fall semester. 1-38 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-39 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-40 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-41 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-42 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-43 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-44 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-45 * * * * *