By Shapleigh S.B. No. 746
76R4694 CAG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to student union fees at The University of Texas at El
1-3 Paso.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 54.535(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System
1-8 may levy a student union fee not to exceed $30 per student for each
1-9 regular semester or each summer session of nine weeks or more, and
1-10 not to exceed $15 per student for each [term of the] summer session
1-11 of less than nine weeks, for the sole purpose of financing,
1-12 constructing, operating, maintaining, and improving a student union
1-13 building for The University of Texas at El Paso; provided, however,
1-14 that the fee may not be increased above $15 per student for each
1-15 regular semester or each summer session of nine weeks or more and
1-16 $7.50 per student for each [term of the] summer session of less
1-17 than nine weeks unless the increase is approved by a majority vote
1-18 of those students participating in a general election. The fees
1-19 herein authorized to be levied are in addition to any use or
1-20 service fee now or hereafter authorized to be levied.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.