| TO: | Honorable Dan Branch, Chair, House Committee on Higher Education |
| FROM: | Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | HB3792 by Coleman (relating to the intercollegiate athletics fee at Texas Southern University.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
The bill amends the Education Code relating to an intercollegiate athletics fee at Texas Southern University. Under provisions of the bill, the section authorizing Texas Southern University to charge students an intercollegiate athletics fee would expire the September 1 that follows the fifth anniversary of the effective date of the most recent act of the legislature amending or reenacting the section of the Education Code.
Under current law, Texas Southern University would not be authorized to charge this fee after fiscal year 2014 (the fifth academic year after the fee was first charged) unless certain conditions were met. Based on information provided by Texas Southern University, the institution estimates that if the fee was reauthorized, the fee would generate additional revenue in the amount of approximately $2.2 million to $2.3 million per fiscal year.
| Source Agencies: | 717 Texas Southern University, 781 Higher Education Coordinating Board
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| LBB Staff: | UP, SZ, TP, KK, SK, EH
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