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