SRC-JJJ S.B. 746 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research CenterS.B. 746
By: Shapleigh
 Higher Education
7/21/1999
Enrolled


DIGEST 

Currently, Texas law authorizes The University of Texas System to levy a
student union fee not to exceed $30 per student for each regular semester
and $15 per student for each term of the summer session for purposes of
maintaining and operating a student union building at The University of
Texas at El Paso (UTEP).  The summer program has since changed and is now
one "long" summer session. S.B. 746 will increase the maximum student union
fee for summer sessions exceeding six weeks to $30, and continue to charge
a maximum $15 fee for students enrolled in a summer session of less than
six weeks. 

PURPOSE

As enrolled, S.B. 746 establishes student union fees at The University of
Texas at El Paso during summer sessions. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 54.503(b), Education Code, to authorize the
total of all compulsory student service fees that may be collected from a
student at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), to be increased to an
amount not to exceed $250, if approved by a majority vote of those students
participating in a general election called for that purpose. Provides that
approval at the election of an increase in the total fees that may be
collected from a student at UTEP does not affect the application of
Subsection (f) to an increase in the total fees actually charged from one
year to the next. 

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 54.535(a), Education Code, to authorize the
board of regents of The University of Texas System to levy a student union
fee not to exceed $30 for a summer session of six weeks or more, and not to
exceed  $15 for a summer session of less than six weeks.  Makes conforming
changes. 

SECTION 2.  Emergency clause.
            Effective date: upon passage.