By: West  S.B. No. 696
         (In the Senate - Filed February 3, 2023; February 17, 2023,
  read first time and referred to Subcommittee on Higher Education;
  April 24, 2023, reported favorably from Committee on Education by
  the following vote:  Yeas 12, Nays 0; April 24, 2023, sent to
  printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to student buildings fees at The University of Texas at
  Dallas.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The heading to Section 54.531, Education Code,
  is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 54.531.  STUDENT UNION BUILDINGS [BUILDING] FEES; THE
  UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS.
         SECTION 2.  Section 54.531, Education Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (a-1) and (a-2) to
  read as follows:
         (a)  The board of regents of The University of Texas System
  may levy a student union fee, not to exceed $100 [$60] per student
  for each regular semester and not to exceed $50 [$40] per student
  for each term of the summer session, for the sole purpose of
  financing, constructing, operating, maintaining, and improving [a]
  student union buildings [building] for The University of Texas at
  Dallas.
         (a-1)  The amount of the fee levied under this section may
  not be increased to an amount that exceeds by 10 percent or more the
  amount of the fee levied during the preceding academic year[;
  provided, however, that the fee may not be increased above $40 per
  student for each regular semester and $26.67 per student for each
  term of the summer session] unless the increase is approved by a
  majority vote of [those] students enrolled at the university
  participating in a general student election held for that purpose.
         (a-2)  The fee [fees herein] authorized to be levied under
  this section is [are] in addition to any use or service fee [now or
  hereafter] authorized to be levied.
         SECTION 3.  The heading to Section 54.5312, Education Code,
  is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 54.5312.  STUDENT SERVICES BUILDINGS [BUILDING] FEE;
  THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS.
         SECTION 4.  Section 54.5312(a), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a)  The board of regents of The University of Texas System
  may impose on each student enrolled at The University of Texas at
  Dallas a student services buildings [building] fee for the sole
  purpose of financing, constructing, operating, maintaining, and
  improving [a] student services buildings [building] at the
  university.
         SECTION 5.  The changes in law made by this Act apply
  beginning with fees imposed for the 2024 fall semester.
         SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
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