By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 746
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to student union fees at The University of Texas at El
1-2 Paso.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 54.535, Education Code,
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System
1-7 may levy a student union fee not to exceed $30 per student for each
1-8 regular semester or each summer session of six weeks or more, and
1-9 not to exceed $15 per student for each [term of the] summer session
1-10 of less than six weeks, for the sole purpose of financing,
1-11 constructing, operating, maintaining, and improving a student union
1-12 building for The University of Texas at El Paso; provided, however,
1-13 that the fee may not be increased above $15 per student for each
1-14 regular semester or each summer session of six weeks or more and
1-15 $7.50 per student for each [term of the] summer session of less
1-16 than six weeks unless the increase is approved by a majority vote
1-17 of those students participating in a general election. The fees
1-18 herein authorized to be levied are in addition to any use or
1-19 service fee now or hereafter authorized to be levied.
1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.