79R6271 KSD-F

By:  Haggerty                                                     H.B. No. 1412



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the recreational facility fee at The University of 
Texas at El Paso.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Sections 54.541(a) and (c), Education Code, are 
amended 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 El 
Paso a recreational facility fee not to exceed $100 [$12] per 
student for a term or semester of 10 weeks or more or $50 for any 
other term or semester [per semester or summer session].  The fee 
may be used only for financing, constructing, operating, 
maintaining, and improving new and existing recreational sports 
facilities and programs at The University of Texas at El Paso.
	(c)  The recreational facility fee may not be increased
[levied] unless the amount of the increase [fee] is approved [and 
the amount of the fee is set] by a majority vote of those students 
participating in a general student election called at The 
University of Texas at El Paso for that purpose.
	SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply 
beginning with the 2005 fall semester.
	SECTION 3.  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, 2005.