By: Ellis S.B. No. 1366 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the establishment of a recreational facility fee at 1-2 Texas Southern University. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 54.5221 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 54.5221. RECREATIONAL FACILITY FEE; TEXAS SOUTHERN 1-7 UNIVERSITY. (a) The board of regents of Texas Southern University 1-8 may levy and collect a recreational facility fee not to exceed $50 1-9 per student for each semester of the regular term or the summer 1-10 session from each student enrolled in Texas Southern University, 1-11 for the sole purpose of constructing, operating, maintaining, 1-12 improving, and equipping a recreational facility or program at the 1-13 institution. A fee collected under this section is in addition to 1-14 any other use or service fee authorized to be levied. 1-15 (b) The fees collected under this section shall be deposited 1-16 to the credit of an account known as the "Texas Southern University 1-17 recreational facility fee account" and shall be under the control 1-18 of the student fee advisory committee established under Section 1-19 54.5031. 1-20 (c) The student fee advisory committee annually shall submit 1-21 to the board of regents a complete and itemized budget for the 1-22 recreational facility with a complete report of all recreational 1-23 facility activities conducted during the past year and all 2-1 expenditures made in connection with those activities. The board 2-2 of regents may make changes in the budget that the board determines 2-3 are necessary. After approving the budget, the board of regents, 2-4 in accordance with this section, may levy the recreational facility 2-5 fees for that year in amounts sufficient to meet the budgetary 2-6 needs of the recreational facility. If the budget approved by the 2-7 board contains an expenditure for the construction of a facility, 2-8 the board may contract for the construction of the facility. 2-9 (d) The board may not increase the amount of the 2-10 recreational facility fee by more than 10 percent in any academic 2-11 year unless the amount of the increase is approved by a majority of 2-12 the students voting in an election held for that purpose or by a 2-13 majority of the student government of the institution. 2-14 (e) A fee levied under this section may not be considered in 2-15 determining the maximum student services fee that may be charged 2-16 under Section 54.503(b). 2-17 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 2-18 to a fee imposed for a semester or summer session that begins on or 2-19 after the effective date of this Act. 2-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-25 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 3-1 passage, and it is so enacted.