1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the authority of the board of regents of Texas Woman's
 1-3     University to levy student fees for medical services.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Sections 54.5085(a) and (b), Education Code, are
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  The board of regents of Texas Woman's University may
 1-8     charge each student registered at the university a medical services
 1-9     fee not to exceed $55 [$30] for each semester of the regular term
1-10     or 12-week summer session and not to exceed $25 [$15] for each
1-11     six-week or shorter term of the summer session.
1-12           (b)  Before the board imposes or increases a fee under this
1-13     section, the board shall consider the recommendations of a student
1-14     fee advisory committee established by the president of the
1-15     university.  A majority of the members of the advisory committee
1-16     must be students appointed by the presiding officer of the student
1-17     governing body and the remainder of the members must be appointed
1-18     by the president of the university.  The board may increase the
1-19     amount of the fee by an amount that is more than 10 percent of the
1-20     amount imposed in the preceding academic year only if that increase
1-21     is approved by a majority vote of those students of the university
1-22     participating in a general election called for that purpose.
1-23           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-24     beginning with fees charged for the 2001 fall semester. Fees
 2-1     charged for a semester or session before the 2001 fall semester are
 2-2     governed by the law in effect at the time the fees are charged, and
 2-3     that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
 2-4           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
 2-5     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
 2-6     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
 2-7     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
 2-8     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
         _______________________________     _______________________________
             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 467 was passed by the House on April
         5, 2001, by the following vote:  Yeas 141, Nays 0, 1 present, not
         voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
         No. 467 on May 15, 2001, by the following vote:  Yeas 141, Nays 0,
         1 present, not voting.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 467 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 10, 2001, by the following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays
         0, 1 present, not voting.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  __________________________
                              Date
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                            Governor