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House Bill 4501 |
House Author: Coleman |
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Effective: 6-19-09 |
Senate Sponsor: Ellis |
House Bill 4501 amends the Education Code to authorize the Texas Southern University board of regents to impose an intercollegiate athletics fee on each student enrolled at Texas Southern University in an amount not to exceed $10 per semester credit hour, up to a maximum of 15 semester credit hours, to be used to develop and maintain an intercollegiate athletics program at the university. The bill makes the initial levy and any fee increase from one academic year to the next subject to approval by a majority vote of the students voting in an election held for that purpose and prohibits the fee from being considered in determining the maximum amount of student services fees that may be imposed under state law. The bill prohibits the fee from being charged after the fifth academic year in which the fee is first charged unless, before the end of that academic year, the university has issued bonds payable in whole or in part from the fee, in which event the fee may not be charged after the academic year in which all such bonds, including refunding bonds for those bonds, have been fully paid. The bill makes its provisions applicable beginning with the 2009 fall semester.