78R3262 KSD-D

By:  Hinojosa                                                     S.B. No. 318



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a fee to fund women's athletic programs of The 
University of Texas System.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.   Subchapter C, Chapter 65, Education Code, is 
amended by adding Section 65.48 to read as follows:
	Sec. 65.48.  SUPPORT OF WOMEN'S ATHLETICS. (a)  The board 
shall impose a fee of $1 to be added to the admission charge for any 
intercollegiate athletic event held on the campus of or on other 
property under the control of any component institution of higher 
education of the system.
	(b)  The board shall adopt rules relating to the collection 
and administration of the fee imposed under this section.
	(c)  The money collected from the fee must be used by the 
system to support women's athletics at component institutions of 
the system.
	(d)  The board shall distribute the money collected under 
this section among the component institutions in proportion to the 
number of women competing in intercollegiate athletics at each of 
those institutions.
	(e)  Money distributed to an institution under this section 
may be used by the institution for scholarships, equipment, 
facilities, travel, lodging, or training for women's 
intercollegiate athletics at the institution.
	(f)  An institution may not reduce the amount of other money 
the institution spends to support women's intercollegiate 
athletics as a result of the institution's receipt of money under 
this section.
	SECTION 2.   This Act takes effect September 1, 2003, and 
applies only to a ticket sale or other admission charge to an 
intercollegiate athletic event if the ticket sale is made or the 
admission charge is collected on or after the effective date of this 
Act.