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AN ACT
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relating to authorizing an increase in the student center fee at |
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Texas Southern University. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 54.522, Education Code, is amended by |
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amending Subsections (a), (c), (d), and (e) and adding Subsection |
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(f) to read as follows: |
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(a) The board of regents of Texas Southern University may |
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impose on each student enrolled in the university [levy and
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collect] a student fee not to exceed $75 [$35] per student for each |
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semester of the regular term [long session] and not to exceed $37.50 |
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[$17.50] per student for each summer term [of the summer session,
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from each student enrolled in Texas Southern University], as the |
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board determines [may in its discretion be just and] necessary for |
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the purpose of operating, maintaining, improving, and equipping the |
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student center and acquiring or constructing additions to the |
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student center. A fee collected under this section is in addition |
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to any other use or service fee authorized to be imposed [levied]. |
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(c) The student fee advisory committee annually shall |
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submit to the board of regents a complete and itemized budget for |
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the student center with a complete report of all student center |
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activities conducted during the past year and all expenditures made |
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in connection with those activities. The board of regents may make |
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changes in the budget that the board determines are necessary. |
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After approving the budget, the board of regents, in accordance |
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with this section, may impose [levy] the student center fees for |
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that year in amounts sufficient to meet the budgetary needs of the |
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student center. |
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(d) The board may not increase the amount of the student |
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center fee [by more than 10 percent] in any academic year unless the |
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amount of the increase is approved by a majority of the students |
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voting in an election held for that purpose or by a majority of the |
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student government of the institution. |
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(e) A fee imposed [levied] under this section may not be |
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considered in determining the maximum student services fee that may |
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be charged under Section 54.503(b). |
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(f) The fee may not be charged after the fifth academic year |
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in which the fee is first charged unless, before the end of that |
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academic year, the university has issued bonds payable in whole or |
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in part from the fee, in which event the fee may not be charged after |
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the academic year in which all such bonds, including refunding |
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bonds for those bonds, have been fully paid. |
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SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies |
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beginning with student fees charged by a public institution of |
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higher education for the 2009-2010 academic year. Student fees |
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charged by a public institution of higher education for an academic |
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year before that academic year are covered by the law in effect |
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before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is |
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continued in effect for that purpose. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
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President of the Senate |
Speaker of the House |
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I certify that H.B. No. 2954 was passed by the House on May 7, |
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2009, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 2, 1 present, not |
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voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. |
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No. 2954 on May 29, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, |
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2 present, not voting. |
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______________________________ |
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Chief Clerk of the House |
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I certify that H.B. No. 2954 was passed by the Senate, with |
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amendments, on May 23, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays |
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0. |
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______________________________ |
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Secretary of the Senate |
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APPROVED: __________________ |
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Governor |