| TO: | Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Chair, Senate Committee on Higher Education |
| FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | SB2351 by Ogden (relating to limiting increases in a student health services fee at Texas A&M University-College Station, and to authorizing the financing, construction, maintenance and improvement of health facilities with a student health services fee at a component institution of Texas A&M University.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
Under provisions of the bill, Texas A&M University-College Station would be allowed to collect a student health servies fee not to exceed $100 for each regular semester and $50 for each summer session. The fee could not be increased by more than ten percent of the fee in place as of September 1, 2009 without a vote for the increase by the majority of students. All other component institutions of the Texas A&M University System could charge up to $75 for the student health services fee for a regular semester and $25 for a summer session with the exception of Prairie View A&M University, which is limited to $30 and $12.50 respectively under current law.
The bill would allow revenue from the fee to be used for financing, constructing, maintaining, and improving new and existing health facilities.
| Source Agencies: | 710 Texas A&M University System Administrative and General Offices
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, KK, RT, SSh
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