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          A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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          AN ACT
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        relating to authorizing an increase in the student union fee at The  | 
      
      
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        University of Texas at Arlington. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Section 54.529(a), Education Code, is amended to  | 
      
      
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        read as follows: | 
      
      
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               (a)  The board of regents of The University of Texas System  | 
      
      
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        may levy a student union fee not to exceed $150 [$39] per student  | 
      
      
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        for each regular semester and not to exceed $75 [$19.50] per student  | 
      
      
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        for each term of the summer session, for the sole purpose of  | 
      
      
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        financing, constructing, operating, maintaining, and improving the  | 
      
      
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        Student Union Building for The University of Texas at Arlington.   | 
      
      
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        The [; provided, however, that the] fee may not be increased above  | 
      
      
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        an amount previously levied [$15 per student for each regular 
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          semester and $7.50 per student for each term of the summer session]  | 
      
      
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        unless the increase is approved by a majority vote of those students  | 
      
      
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        participating in a general election.  The fees herein authorized to  | 
      
      
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        be levied are in addition to any use or service fee now or hereafter  | 
      
      
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        authorized to be levied. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  Section 54.529(a), Education Code, as amended by  | 
      
      
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        this Act, applies beginning with fees imposed for the 2019 fall  | 
      
      
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        semester. | 
      
      
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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, 2019. |