1-1 By: Crownover (Senate Sponsor - Haywood) H.B. No. 461 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 28, 2001; 1-3 March 29, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Education; May 3, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 3, 2001, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to imposing a recreational facility fee at the University 1-9 of North Texas. 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 54.5091 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 54.5091. STUDENT RECREATIONAL FACILITY FEE; UNIVERSITY 1-14 OF NORTH TEXAS. (a) If approved by a majority vote of those 1-15 students participating in a general election held at the university 1-16 for that purpose, the board of regents of the University of North 1-17 Texas may impose a recreational facility fee on each student 1-18 enrolled in the university in an amount not to exceed $75 per 1-19 student for each semester of the regular term or 12-week summer 1-20 session and not to exceed $37.50 per student for each six-week or 1-21 shorter term of the summer session. The fee may be used only for 1-22 constructing, operating, maintaining, improving, and equipping a 1-23 recreational facility or program at the university. 1-24 (b) Revenue from a fee imposed under this section shall be 1-25 deposited to the credit of an account known as the "University of 1-26 North Texas recreational facility fee account" under the control of 1-27 the student fee advisory committee established under Section 1-28 54.5031. 1-29 (c) The student fee advisory committee annually shall submit 1-30 to the board of regents a complete and itemized budget for the 1-31 recreational facility with a complete report of all recreational 1-32 facility activities conducted during the past year and all 1-33 expenditures made in connection with those activities. The board 1-34 may make changes in the budget that the board determines are 1-35 necessary. After approving the budget, the board, in accordance 1-36 with this section, may impose the recreational facility fees for 1-37 that year in amounts sufficient to meet the budgetary needs of the 1-38 recreational facility. If the budget approved by the board 1-39 contains an expenditure for the construction of a facility, the 1-40 board may contract for the construction of the facility. 1-41 (d) The board may not increase the amount of the 1-42 recreational facility fee by more than 10 percent in any academic 1-43 year unless the amount of the increase is approved by a majority of 1-44 the students participating in a general election held at the 1-45 university for that purpose. 1-46 (e) A fee imposed under this section is in addition to any 1-47 other use or service fee authorized to be imposed. 1-48 (f) A fee imposed under this section may not be considered 1-49 in determining the maximum student services fees that may be 1-50 imposed under Section 54.503(b). 1-51 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2001 fall 1-52 semester. 1-53 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 1-54 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 1-55 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this 1-56 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 1-57 Act takes effect September 1, 2001. 1-58 * * * * *