By De La Garza H.B. No. 1044 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a student union building fee at The University of 1-3 Texas - Pan American. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 54, Education Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Section 54.541 to read to follows: 1-7 Sec. 54.541. STUDENT UNION BUILDING FEE; THE UNIVERSITY OF 1-8 TEXAS - PAN AMERICAN. (a) The board of regents of The University 1-9 of Texas System may levy a student union fee, not to exceed $30 per 1-10 student for each regular semester and $15 per student for each term 1-11 of the summer session, for the sole purpose of financing, 1-12 constructing, operating, maintaining, and improving a student union 1-13 building for The University of Texas-Pan American; provided 1-14 however, that the fee may not be increased above $20 per student of 1-15 each regular semester and $10 per student for each term of the 1-16 summer session unless the increase is approved by a majority vote 1-17 of those students participating in a general election held for that 1-18 purpose. The fees herein authorized to be levied are in addition 1-19 to any use or service fee now or hereafter authorized to be levied. 1-20 (b) Such fees shall be deposited to an account known as "The 1-21 University of Texas-Pan American Student Union Fee Account" and 1-22 shall be under the control of and subject to the order of the 1-23 Student Union Advisory Committee. The committee shall annually 2-1 submit to the president of The University of Texas-Pan American a 2-2 complete and itemized budget to be accompanied by a full and 2-3 complete report of all activities conducted during the past year 2-4 and all expenditures made incident thereto. The president shall 2-5 submit the budget to the board of regents as part of the 2-6 institutional budget. The board of regents shall make such changes 2-7 in the budget as it deems necessary before approving the budget, 2-8 and shall then levy the fees, within the limits herein fixed, in 2-9 such amounts as will be sufficient to meet the budgetary needs of 2-10 the student union building. 2-11 SECTION 2. The fee authorized by this Act becomes effective 2-12 for the fall semester, 1993, if the fee is approved by majority 2-13 vote of those students participating in a general election held for 2-14 that purpose. 2-15 Section 3. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 2-16 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-21 passage, and it is so enacted.