Bill Text: TX HB1277 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to authorizing a wellness and success center fee at the University of Houston-Downtown.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB1277 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1277-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing a wellness and success center fee at the University of Houston-Downtown.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB1277 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1277-Comm_Sub.html
By: Perez (Senate Sponsor - Miles) | H.B. No. 1277 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 15, 2019; | ||
April 16, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher | ||
Education; May 13, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; | ||
May 13, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1277 | By: Powell |
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relating to authorizing a wellness and success center fee at the | ||
University of Houston-Downtown. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 54.5402 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 54.5402. WELLNESS AND SUCCESS CENTER FEE; UNIVERSITY | ||
OF HOUSTON-DOWNTOWN. (a) The board of regents of the University of | ||
Houston System may charge each student enrolled at the University | ||
of Houston-Downtown a wellness and success center fee. The fee may | ||
be used only for the purpose of financing, constructing, operating, | ||
maintaining, improving, and equipping a wellness and success center | ||
and for operating student wellness programs at the University of | ||
Houston-Downtown. | ||
(b) The wellness and success center fee may not be charged | ||
unless the charging of the fee is approved by a majority vote of the | ||
students enrolled at the university participating in a general | ||
student election held for that purpose. | ||
(c) The amount of a fee charged under this section may not | ||
exceed: | ||
(1) $150 per student for each regular semester; | ||
(2) $75 per student for each summer session of eight | ||
weeks or longer; or | ||
(3) $50 per student for each term of the summer session | ||
of less than eight weeks. | ||
(d) Revenue from a fee charged under this section shall be | ||
deposited to the credit of an account known as the University of | ||
Houston-Downtown Wellness and Success Center Fee Account. | ||
(e) The board of regents may increase the amount of a fee | ||
charged under this section, except that the board may not increase | ||
the amount of the fee to an amount that exceeds by more than 10 | ||
percent the amount of the fee charged during the preceding academic | ||
year unless the amount of the increase is approved by a majority | ||
vote of students enrolled at the university participating in a | ||
general student election held 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. | ||
(f) The wellness and success center fee is not considered in | ||
determining the maximum amount of student services fees that may be | ||
charged under Section 54.503. | ||
SECTION 2. 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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