86R8387 SOS-F
 
  By: Turner of Tarrant H.B. No. 2718
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to authorizing an increase in the student union fee at The
  University of Texas at Arlington.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 54.529(a), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  The board of regents of The University of Texas System
  may levy a student union fee not to exceed $150 [$39] per student
  for each regular semester and not to exceed $75 [$19.50] per student
  for each term of the summer session, for the sole purpose of
  financing, constructing, operating, maintaining, and improving the
  Student Union Building for The University of Texas at Arlington.  
  The [; provided, however, that the] fee may not be increased above
  an amount previously levied [$15 per student for each regular
  semester and $7.50 per student for each term of the summer session]
  unless the increase is approved by a majority vote of those students
  participating in a general election.  The fees herein authorized to
  be levied are in addition to any use or service fee now or hereafter
  authorized to be levied.
         SECTION 2.  Section 54.529(a), Education Code, as amended by
  this Act, applies beginning with fees imposed for the 2019 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, 2019.