By:  Haggerty (Senate Sponsor - Shapleigh)                        H.B. No. 1412
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 2005; 
April 12, 2005, read first time and referred to Subcommittee on 
Higher Education; May 19, 2005, reported favorably to Committee on 
Education; May 23, 2005, reported adversely, with favorable 
Committee Substitute from Committee on Education by the following 
vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 23, 2005, sent to printer.)


COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1412                                   By:  Van de Putte


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 $12 per student per 
semester or summer session or a greater amount not to exceed $40 per 
student per semester or summer session if that maximum amount is 
approved by a two-thirds vote of those students participating in a 
general student election called at the university for that purpose.  
The election may be held at the same time as an election under 
Subsection (c) to increase the amount of the fee charged.  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 amount of the recreational facility fee charged to a 
student may not be increased from one academic year to the next
[levied] unless the amount of the increase [fee] is approved [and 
the amount of the fee is set] by a two-thirds [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.



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