By Crownover                                           H.B. No. 462
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the authority of the board of regents of the University
 1-3     of North Texas to levy student fees for medical services.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1. Section 54.5081, Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 54.5081.  MEDICAL SERVICES FEE; UNIVERSITY OF NORTH
 1-8     TEXAS SYSTEM INSTITUTIONS. (a)  The [governing] board of regents of
 1-9     the University of North Texas System may charge each student
1-10     registered at a component institution of the University of North
1-11     Texas System [the university] a medical services fee not to exceed
1-12     $75 [$25] for each semester of the regular term or 12-week summer
1-13     session and not to exceed $37.50 [$12.50] for each six-week or
1-14     shorter term of the summer session.
1-15           (b)  Before charging a medical services fee at a component
1-16     institution, the board must give students and administrators an
1-17     opportunity to offer recommendations to the board as to the type
1-18     and scope of medical services that should be provided.
1-19           (c)  The board may not increase the amount of the medical
1-20     services fee charged at a component institution by more than 10
1-21     percent from one academic year to the next unless the amount of the
1-22     increase is approved by a majority of the students at the
1-23     institution voting in a general election held at the institution
1-24     for that purpose.
 2-1           (d)  A medical services fee charged at a component
 2-2     institution of the University of North Texas System under this
 2-3     section may be used only to provide medical services to students
 2-4     registered at that component institution [the university].
 2-5           (e) [(d)]  The fee imposed under this section may not be
 2-6     considered in determining the maximum student services fee that may
 2-7     be charged students enrolled at a component institution of the
 2-8     University of North Texas System [the university] under Section
 2-9     54.503(b) [of this code].
2-10           (f)  The maximum fee amounts imposed by Subsection (a) and
2-11     the prohibition imposed by Subsection (c) do not apply to the 2001
2-12     fall semester. For the 2001 fall semester, the board may not
2-13     increase the amount of the medical services fee charged at a
2-14     component institution of the University of North Texas System to an
2-15     amount more than $30 unless the increase is approved by a majority
2-16     of the students at the institution voting in an election held for
2-17     that purpose.  This subsection expires January 1, 2002.
2-18           SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies
2-19     beginning with fees charged for the 2001 fall semester.  Fees
2-20     charged for a semester or session before the 2001 fall semester are
2-21     governed by the law in effect at the time the fees are charged, and
2-22     that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-23           SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a
2-24     vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-25     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
2-26     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-27     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.