1-1     By:  Crownover (Senate Sponsor - Haywood)              H.B. No. 462
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 2, 2001;
 1-3     April 3, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Education; May 3, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 3, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the authority of the board of regents of the University
 1-9     of North Texas to levy student fees for medical services.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1. Section 54.5081, Education Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 54.5081.  MEDICAL SERVICES FEE; UNIVERSITY OF NORTH
1-14     TEXAS SYSTEM INSTITUTIONS. (a)  The [governing] board of regents of
1-15     the University of North Texas System may charge each student
1-16     registered at a component institution of the University of North
1-17     Texas System [the university] a medical services fee not to exceed
1-18     $75 [$25] for each semester of the regular term or 12-week summer
1-19     session and not to exceed $37.50 [$12.50] for each six-week or
1-20     shorter term of the summer session.
1-21           (b)  Before charging a medical services fee at a component
1-22     institution, the board must give students and administrators an
1-23     opportunity to offer recommendations to the board as to the type
1-24     and scope of medical services that should be provided.
1-25           (c)  The board may not increase the amount of the medical
1-26     services fee charged at a component institution by more than 10
1-27     percent from one academic year to the next unless the amount of the
1-28     increase is approved by a majority of the students at the
1-29     institution voting in a general election held at the institution
1-30     for that purpose.
1-31           (d)  A medical services fee charged at a component
1-32     institution of the University of North Texas System under this
1-33     section may be used only to provide medical services to students
1-34     registered at that component institution [the university].
1-35           (e) [(d)]  The fee imposed under this section may not be
1-36     considered in determining the maximum student services fee that may
1-37     be charged students enrolled at a component institution of the
1-38     University of North Texas System [the university] under Section
1-39     54.503(b) [of this code].
1-40           (f)  The maximum fee amounts imposed by Subsection (a) and
1-41     the prohibition imposed by Subsection (c) do not apply to the 2001
1-42     fall semester. For the 2001 fall semester, the board may not
1-43     increase the amount of the medical services fee charged at a
1-44     component institution of the University of North Texas System to an
1-45     amount more than $30 unless the increase is approved by a majority
1-46     of the students at the institution voting in an election held for
1-47     that purpose.  This subsection expires January 1, 2002.
1-48           SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies
1-49     beginning with fees charged for the 2001 fall semester.  Fees
1-50     charged for a semester or session before the 2001 fall semester are
1-51     governed by the law in effect at the time the fees are charged, and
1-52     that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-53           SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a
1-54     vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-55     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-56     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-57     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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