By: Perez of El Paso, et al. H.B. No. 2853
        (Senate Sponsor - Blanco)
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2025;
  May 21, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Education K-16; May 25, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable
  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 1;
  May 25, 2025, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2853 By:  Bettencourt
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to student union building fees at The University of Texas
  at El Paso.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 54.535(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 $30 per student for each
  regular semester or each summer session of six weeks or more, and
  not to exceed $15 per student for each summer session of less than
  six weeks,] for the sole purpose of financing, constructing,
  operating, maintaining, and improving a student union building for
  The University of Texas at El Paso, including demolition of the
  existing student union building;  provided, however, that the fee
  may not be increased to an amount that exceeds by at least 10
  percent the amount of the fee levied during the preceding academic
  year, [above $15 per student for each regular semester or each
  summer session of six weeks or more and $7.50 per student for each
  summer session of less than six weeks] 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 fee imposed under this section is [The fees herein
  authorized to be levied are] in addition to any other [use or
  service] fee the board is [now or hereafter] authorized by law to
  impose [be levied].
         SECTION 2.  Section 54.535, Education Code, as amended by
  this Act, applies beginning with student union fees collected for
  the 2026 spring semester.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
 
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