1-1 By: Ellis S.B. No. 1366 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 18, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 18, 1997, 1-4 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 12, Nays 0; 1-5 April 18, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the establishment of a recreational facility fee at 1-9 Texas Southern University. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is 1-12 amended by adding Section 54.5221 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 54.5221. RECREATIONAL FACILITY FEE; TEXAS SOUTHERN 1-14 UNIVERSITY. (a) The board of regents of Texas Southern University 1-15 may levy and collect a recreational facility fee not to exceed $50 1-16 per student for each semester of the regular term or the summer 1-17 session from each student enrolled in Texas Southern University, 1-18 for the sole purpose of constructing, operating, maintaining, 1-19 improving, and equipping a recreational facility or program at the 1-20 institution. A fee collected under this section is in addition to 1-21 any other use or service fee authorized to be levied. 1-22 (b) The fees collected under this section shall be deposited 1-23 to the credit of an account known as the "Texas Southern University 1-24 recreational facility fee account" and shall be under the control 1-25 of the student fee advisory committee established under Section 1-26 54.5031. 1-27 (c) The student fee advisory committee annually shall submit 1-28 to the board of regents a complete and itemized budget for the 1-29 recreational facility with a complete report of all recreational 1-30 facility activities conducted during the past year and all 1-31 expenditures made in connection with those activities. The board 1-32 of regents may make changes in the budget that the board determines 1-33 are necessary. After approving the budget, the board of regents, 1-34 in accordance with this section, may levy the recreational facility 1-35 fees for that year in amounts sufficient to meet the budgetary 1-36 needs of the recreational facility. If the budget approved by the 1-37 board contains an expenditure for the construction of a facility, 1-38 the board may contract for the construction of the facility. 1-39 (d) The board may not increase the amount of the 1-40 recreational facility fee by more than 10 percent in any academic 1-41 year unless the amount of the increase is approved by a majority of 1-42 the students voting in an election held for that purpose or by a 1-43 majority of the student government of the institution. 1-44 (e) A fee levied under this section may not be considered in 1-45 determining the maximum student services fee that may be charged 1-46 under Section 54.503(b). 1-47 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-48 to a fee imposed for a semester or summer session that begins on or 1-49 after the effective date of this Act. 1-50 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-51 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-52 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-53 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-54 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-55 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-56 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-57 * * * * *