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            |  | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | 
         
            |  | AN ACT | 
         
            |  | relating to the student union fee at the University of Houston. | 
         
            |  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
         
            |  | SECTION 1.  Section 54.526(a), Education Code, is amended to | 
         
            |  | read as follows: | 
         
            |  | (a)  The board of regents of the University of Houston System | 
         
            |  | may levy a student union fee, not to exceed $150 per student for | 
         
            |  | each regular semester and not to exceed $75 per student for each | 
         
            |  | term of the summer session.  The sole purpose of the fee is | 
         
            |  | financing, constructing, operating, maintaining, [ and] improving, | 
         
            |  | and providing programming at a Student Union Building for the | 
         
            |  | University of Houston.  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  Section 54.526(c), Education Code, is repealed. | 
         
            |  | SECTION 3.  Section 54.526, Education Code, as amended by | 
         
            |  | this Act, applies to student fees imposed for a semester or term | 
         
            |  | beginning before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. | 
         
            |  | SECTION 4.  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, 2021. |