Bill Text: TX HB2718 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to authorizing an increase in the student union fee at The University of Texas at Arlington.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2718 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2718-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing an increase in the student union fee at The University of Texas at Arlington.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2718 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2718-Comm_Sub.html
By: Turner of Tarrant (Senate Sponsor - West) | H.B. No. 2718 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2019; | ||
May 7, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher | ||
Education; May 19, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | ||
May 19, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2718 | By: Powell |
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relating to authorizing an increase in the student union fee at The | ||
University of Texas at Arlington. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 54.529(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 $150 [ |
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for each regular semester and not to exceed $75 [ |
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for each term of the summer session, for the sole purpose of | ||
financing, constructing, operating, maintaining, and improving the | ||
Student Union Building for The University of Texas at Arlington. | ||
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an amount previously levied [ |
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unless the increase is approved by a majority vote of those students | ||
participating in a general election held at the university 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. 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 54.529(a), Education Code, as amended by | ||
this Act, applies beginning with fees imposed for the 2019 fall | ||
semester. | ||
SECTION 3. 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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