This website will be unavailable from Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. through Monday, June 3, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. due to data center maintenance.
79R10553 KSD-D
By: Quintanilla H.B. No. 2212
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2212:
By: Gallego C.S.H.B. No. 2212
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the student union fee at The University of Texas at El
Paso.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 54.535, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 54.535. STUDENT UNION FEE; THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT
EL PASO. (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System
may impose [levy] a student union fee not to exceed $75 [$30] per
student for each regular semester or each summer session of six
weeks or more, and not to exceed $37.50 [$15] per student for each
summer session of less than six weeks, for the sole purpose of
financing, constructing, operating, maintaining, and improving a
student union building for The University of Texas at El Paso.
(b) Subject to the limits provided by Subsection (a), the
board of regents may increase the student union fee in order to
provide sufficient funds to support the operation of the student
union building. The student union fee may not be increased from one
academic year to the next by more than $3 per student for a regular
semester or summer session of six weeks or more, or by more than
$1.50 per student for a summer session of less than six weeks,
unless the increase is approved by a majority vote of those students
participating in a general student election called at the
university for that purpose.
(c) The board of regents may pledge the student union fees
imposed under this section to pay obligations issued pursuant to
the revenue financing system of The University of Texas System.
(d) A student union fee imposed under this section is in
addition to any other fee the board of regents is authorized by law
to impose and may not be considered in determining the maximum
amount of student services fees that may be imposed under Section
54.503 [; provided, however, that the fee may not be increased above
$15 per student for each regular semester or each summer session of
six weeks or more and $7.50 per student for each summer session of
less than six weeks unless the increase is approved by a majority
vote of those students participating in a general election. The
fees herein authorized to be levied are in addition to any use or
service fee now or hereafter authorized to be levied.
[(b) Such fees shall be deposited to an account known as The
University of Texas at El Paso student union fee account and shall
be placed under the control of and subject to the order of the
Student Union Advisory Committee. The committee shall annually
submit to the president of The University of Texas at El Paso a
complete and itemized budget to be accompanied by a full and
complete report of all activities conducted during the past year
and all expenditures made incident thereto. The president shall
submit the budget to the board of regents as part of the
institutional budget. The board of regents shall make such changes
in the budget as it deems necessary before approving the budget, and
shall then levy the fees, within the limits herein fixed, in such
amounts as will be sufficient to meet the budgetary needs of the
student union building].
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply
beginning with fees imposed for 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.