Amend CSHB 3540 (House committee printing) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered ARTICLE and renumbering 
subsequent ARTICLES accordingly:

ARTICLE ____.  TREATMENT OF CERTAIN FEES RECEIVED BY INSTITUTIONS 
OF HIGHER EDUCATION
	SECTION ___.01.  Section 51.009(c), Education Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(c)  Each of the following shall be accounted for as 
educational and general funds:
		(1)  net tuition, special course fees charged under 
Sections 54.051(e) and (1), Education Code, lab fees, student 
teaching fees, [hospital and clinic fees,] organized activity fees, 
proceeds from the sale of educational and general equipment, and 
indirect cost recovery fees; and
		(2)  hospital and clinic fees received by a state-owned 
clinical care facility that is operated using general revenue fund 
appropriations for patient care.
	SECTION ____.02.  Section 51.009(c), Education Code, as 
amended by this article, applies to fees collected on or after the 
effective date of this Act.  A fee collected before that date is 
governed by the law in effect when the fee is collected, and that 
law is continued in effect for that purpose.