By: West (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) H.B. No. 1157
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 16, 2007;
  April 17, 2007, read first time and referred to Subcommittee on
  Higher Education; May 10, 2007, reported adversely, with favorable
  Committee Substitute from Committee on Education by the following
  vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 10, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1157 By:  West
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to student services building fees at The University of
  Texas of the Permian Basin.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 54.5332 to read as follows:
         Sec. 54.5332.  FEES FOR STUDENT SERVICES BUILDING; THE
  UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN. (a)  The board of regents
  of The University of Texas System may charge each student enrolled
  at The University of Texas of the Permian Basin a fee for the
  purpose of financing the construction of a student services
  building at the university or for the purpose of operating the
  student services building.
         (b)  The amount of the fee may not exceed:
               (1)  $100 for each regular semester;
               (2)  $75 for each summer session of more than six weeks;
  or
               (3)  $50 for each summer session of six weeks or
  shorter.
         (c)  The amount of the fee may not be increased from one
  academic year to the next 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.
         (d)  The university shall collect the fee imposed under this
  section and deposit the money collected into an account to be known
  as the student services building account of The University of Texas
  of the Permian Basin.  Money in the account may be used only for the
  purposes described by Subsection (a).
         (e)  A fee charged under this section is in addition to any
  other fee the board is authorized by law to charge at the university
  and may not be considered in determining the maximum student
  services fee that may be charged under Section 54.503.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2007 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, 2007.
 
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