S.B. No. 480

AN ACT

relating to the student union fee at the University of Houston.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 54.526(a), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) The board of regents of the University of Houston System may levy a student union fee, not to exceed $150 per student for each regular semester and not to exceed $75 per student for each term of the summer session. The sole purpose of the fee is financing, constructing, operating, maintaining, [and] improving, and providing programming at a Student Union Building for the University of Houston. The fees herein authorized to be levied are in addition to any use or service fee now or hereafter authorized to be levied.

SECTION 2. Section 54.526(a), Education Code, as amended by this Act, applies to student fees imposed for a semester or term beginning before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2021.

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President of the Senate Speaker of the House

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 480 passed the Senate on April 19, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

______________________________ Secretary of the Senate

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 480 passed the House on May 24, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 100, Nays 42, one present not voting.

______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House

Approved:

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Date

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Governor