By: Turner of Tarrant (Senate Sponsor - West) H.B. No. 2718
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2019;
  May 7, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher
  Education; May 19, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable
  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0;
  May 19, 2019, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2718 By:  Powell
 
 
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 held at the university for that
  purpose.  The ballot proposition for such an election must clearly
  state the amount of the proposed fee increase and describe the
  reason for the proposed fee increase.  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.
 
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