By Oliveira H.B. No. 1488 76R5942 CAG-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the student union building fee at The University of 1-3 Texas at Brownsville. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 54.546 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 54.546. STUDENT UNION FEES; THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT 1-8 BROWNSVILLE. (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas 1-9 System may impose on each student enrolled at The University of 1-10 Texas at Brownsville a student union fee of not less than $34.35 1-11 or more than $70 for each semester or long summer session for the 1-12 sole purpose of financing, constructing, operating, maintaining, 1-13 renovating, and improving a student union building owned by Texas 1-14 Southmost College and used by the partnership of The University of 1-15 Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College under Section 1-16 78.02. The fee may be imposed in addition to any other fee. 1-17 (b) Revenue from the fee imposed under this section shall 1-18 be deposited to an account known as The University of Texas at 1-19 Brownsville student union account. Money in the account shall be 1-20 used in accordance with the terms of the partnership agreements 1-21 entered into between The University of Texas at Brownsville and 1-22 Texas Southmost College under Section 78.02. 1-23 (c) The board of regents may pledge revenue from the fee 1-24 imposed under this section for the payment of obligations issued 2-1 for an authorized purpose under the revenue financing system of The 2-2 University of Texas System. 2-3 (d) The board may not increase the amount of the fee by more 2-4 than 10 percent in any academic year unless the amount of the 2-5 increase is approved by a majority of the students voting in an 2-6 election held for that purpose and by a majority of the members of 2-7 the legislative body of the student government of the institution. 2-8 (e) Subject to the limitations of this section on the amount 2-9 of the fee and any increase in the amount of the fee, the fee 2-10 imposed under this section must be in the same amount as the 2-11 student union fee charged a student at Texas Southmost College by 2-12 the board of trustees of Southmost Union Junior College District. A 2-13 student attending either or both institutions may be charged a 2-14 student union fee by only one of the institutions. 2-15 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999 fall 2-16 semester. 2-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-23 passage, and it is so enacted.