H.B. No. 1650




AN ACT

relating to student fees charged at The University of Texas at San 
Antonio. 
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Sections 54.532(a) and (c), Education Code, are 
amended to read as follows:
	(a)  The board of regents of The University of Texas System 
may levy a student union fee of not less than $20 or more than $150
[$75] for each semester or summer session, assessed in proportion 
to the number of credit hours for which a student registers, for the 
sole purpose of financing, operating, maintaining, and improving a 
student union building for The University of Texas at San Antonio.  
This fee may be levied in addition to any other use or service fee.
	(c)  The board may not increase the amount of the student 
union fee [by more than 10 percent] in any academic year unless the 
amount of the increase is approved by a majority of the students 
voting in an election held for that purpose and by a majority of the 
student government of the institution.
	SECTION 2.  Section 54.543, Education Code, is amended by 
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (g) to read as 
follows:
	(a)  The board of regents of The University of Texas System 
may charge each student enrolled at The University of Texas at San 
Antonio a recreational facility fee not to exceed $100 [$30] for 
each semester of the regular term or summer session to finance, 
construct, operate, maintain, or improve student recreational 
facilities at the university.
	(g)  The board may not increase the amount of the 
recreational facility fee in any academic year unless the amount of 
the increase is approved by a majority vote of the students 
participating in a general student election held for that purpose.
	SECTION 3.  (a)  Subject to Subsection (b), the change in law 
made by this Act applies only to fees imposed for a semester or term 
that begins on or after the effective date of this Act.
	(b)  The change in law made by this Act in amending Section 
54.532(a), Education Code, applies only to fees imposed under that 
subsection beginning with the 2007 fall semester.
	SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.




______________________________              ______________________________
 
   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 1650 was passed by the House on April 
3, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 141, Nays 0, 2 present, not 
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. 
No. 1650 on May 30, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 143, Nays 0, 
2 present, not voting.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	
I certify that H.B. No. 1650 was passed by the Senate, with 
amendments, on May 28, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 
0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                      Secretary of the Senate   



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              Governor