Bill Text: TX HB2568 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing a student center fee at the University of Houston-Victoria.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2015-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB2568 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2568-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2568 |
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relating to authorizing a student center fee at the University of | ||
Houston-Victoria. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 54.5405 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 54.5405. STUDENT CENTER FEE; UNIVERSITY OF | ||
HOUSTON-VICTORIA. (a) The board of regents of the University of | ||
Houston System may impose on each student enrolled at the | ||
University of Houston-Victoria a student center fee to be used only | ||
for the purpose of financing, constructing, operating, | ||
maintaining, improving, and equipping a student center at the | ||
university. A fee imposed under this section is in addition to any | ||
use or service fee authorized to be imposed under other law. | ||
(b) The amount of the initial fee imposed under this section | ||
must be 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 imposed under this section may not | ||
exceed: | ||
(1) $150 per student for each regular semester; | ||
(2) $100 per student for each summer session of 10 | ||
weeks or longer; or | ||
(3) $50 per student for each summer session of less | ||
than 10 weeks. | ||
(d) Revenue from a fee imposed under this section shall be | ||
deposited to the credit of an account known as the "University of | ||
Houston-Victoria Student Center Fee Account" under the control of | ||
the university's student fee advisory committee. Annually, the | ||
committee shall submit to the president of the university its | ||
recommendation for any change to the amount of the fee and a | ||
complete and itemized budget for the student center together with a | ||
complete report of all student center activities conducted during | ||
the past year and all expenditures made in connection with those | ||
activities. The president shall submit the budget to the board of | ||
regents as part of the university's institutional budget. The | ||
board of regents may make changes in the budget that the board | ||
determines are necessary. | ||
(e) The board of regents may increase the amount of a fee | ||
imposed 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 imposed 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. | ||
(f) For purposes of determining whether to waive the | ||
imposition of the fee as provided under Section 54.5035, a student | ||
is not reasonably able to use the student center for which a fee is | ||
imposed under this section if the student lives more than 50 miles | ||
outside the corporate limits of Victoria, Texas. | ||
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, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2568 was passed by the House on April | ||
16, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 130, Nays 16, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2568 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
24, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays 3. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |