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Senate Bill 1145 |
Senate Author: Hegar |
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Effective: 6-14-13 |
House Sponsor: Bell |
Senate Bill 1145 amends the Education Code to raise from $10 per credit hour to $12.60 per credit hour the cap on the intercollegiate athletics fee that may be imposed on each student enrolled at Prairie View A&M University by The Texas A&M University System board of regents and to authorize an increase in the fee amount above the cap from one academic year to the next if the increase is approved by a majority vote of the students participating in a general student election held at the university for that purpose or, if the amount of the increase does not exceed five percent, the increase is approved by a majority vote of the legislative body of the university's student government. The bill removes a provision capping the total amount of the fee imposed on a student for a semester or session at the amount imposed on a student enrolled in 15 semester credit hours during that semester or session.
Senate Bill 1145 postpones the fee's expiration date from September 1, 2013, to September 1, 2018, unless before that latter date the board of regents issues bonds payable from the fee, in which case the authorization to impose the fee expires at the end of the semester or session in which the bonds are fully paid.