1-1 By: Lucio S.B. No. 579
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 2, 1993; March 3, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; March 17, 1993,
1-4 reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; March 17, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Ratliff x
1-9 Haley x
1-10 Barrientos x
1-11 Bivins x
1-12 Harris of Tarrant x
1-13 Luna x
1-14 Montford x
1-15 Shapiro x
1-16 Sibley x
1-17 Turner x
1-18 Zaffirini x
1-19 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 579 By: Zaffirini
1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-21 AN ACT
1-22 relating to a student union building fee at The University of
1-23 Texas--Pan American.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
1-26 amended by adding Section 54.541 to read as follows:
1-27 Sec. 54.541. STUDENT UNION BUILDING FEE; THE UNIVERSITY OF
1-28 TEXAS--PAN AMERICAN. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c) of
1-29 this section, the board of regents of The University of Texas
1-30 System may levy a student union fee, not to exceed $30 for each
1-31 student for each regular semester or $15 for each student for each
1-32 term of the summer session, for the sole purpose of financing,
1-33 constructing, operating, maintaining, and improving a student union
1-34 building for The University of Texas--Pan American.
1-35 (b) The board of regents may pledge the fees levied under
1-36 this section to pay obligations issued pursuant to the revenue
1-37 financing system of The University of Texas System.
1-38 (c) A student union fee levied under this section may not be
1-39 levied or increased unless the levy or increase is approved by a
1-40 majority vote of those students participating in a general election
1-41 held for that purpose.
1-42 (d) Student union fees levied under this section are in
1-43 addition to any other fee the board of regents is authorized by law
1-44 to charge and may not be considered in determining the maximum
1-45 student services fee that may be charged under Section 54.503(b) of
1-46 this code.
1-47 (e) The board shall deposit student union fees levied under
1-48 this section to the credit of an account known as The University of
1-49 Texas--Pan American Student Union Fee Account.
1-50 (f) Notwithstanding Section 51.002 of this code, student
1-51 union fees levied under this section are under the control of the
1-52 Student Union Advisory Committee. The committee annually shall
1-53 submit to the president of The University of Texas--Pan American a
1-54 complete and itemized budget with a complete report of all
1-55 activities conducted during the past year and all expenditures made
1-56 in connection with those activities. The president shall submit
1-57 the budget to the board of regents as part of the institutional
1-58 budget. Before approving the budget, the board of regents may make
1-59 changes in the budget that the board determines are necessary.
1-60 After approving the budget, the board, in accordance with this
1-61 section, may levy the student union fees for that year in amounts
1-62 sufficient to meet the budgetary needs of the student union
1-63 building.
1-64 SECTION 2. The fee authorized by Section 54.541, Education
1-65 Code, as added by this Act, applies beginning with the fall
1-66 semester 1993 if the fee is approved by majority vote of those
1-67 students participating in a general election held for that purpose.
1-68 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.
2-7 * * * * *
2-8 Austin,
2-9 Texas
2-10 March 17, 1993
2-11 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-12 President of the Senate
2-13 Sir:
2-14 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred S.B. No. 579,
2-15 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-16 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
2-17 pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
2-18 pass and be printed.
2-19 Ratliff,
2-20 Chairman
2-21 * * * * *
2-22 WITNESSES
2-23 FOR AGAINST ON
2-24 ___________________________________________________________________
2-25 Name: Martin Torres x
2-26 Representing: UTPA Student body
2-27 City: Edinburg
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2-29 Name: Miquel A Nevarez x
2-30 Representing: UT Pan American
2-31 City: Edinburg
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