79R6617 JRJ-F

By:  Deuell                                                       S.B. No. 702



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to authorizing certain uses for student center complex 
fees charged to students enrolled in component institutions of The 
Texas A&M University System.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 54.521(a), Education Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
	(a)  The board of regents of The Texas A&M University System 
may levy a regular, fixed student fee on each student enrolled in an 
educational institution within The Texas A&M University System for 
the purpose of acquiring, constructing, renovating, [producing 
revenue for] operating, maintaining, improving, financing, and 
equipping one or more facilities in the institution's student 
center complex and [acquiring or constructing] additions to or 
replacements for one or more facilities in the complex.  The board 
may set fees in amounts it considers just and necessary but not to 
exceed $100 per student for each semester for the long session and 
not to exceed $50 per student for each term of the summer session, 
or any fractional part of a session.  The activities of the student 
center complex that may be financed in whole or in part by the 
student center complex fee are limited to those activities in which 
the entire student body is eligible to participate.  The financed 
activities may not be held outside the territorial limits of any 
educational institution within The Texas A&M University System.
	SECTION 2.  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.