Bill Text: TX HB3312 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 3312 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to authorizing a health and wellness center fee at the University of Houston-Victoria.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB3312 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB3312-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 3312




	AN ACT
	relating to authorizing a health and wellness 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 54.5406 to read as follows:
	Sec. 54.5406. HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER FEE; UNIVERSITY OF
	HOUSTON-VICTORIA. (a) The board of regents of the University of
	Houston System may charge each student enrolled at the University
	of Houston-Victoria a health and wellness center fee. The fee may
	be used only for the purpose of financing, constructing, operating,
	maintaining, improving, and equipping a health and wellness center
	at the University of Houston-Victoria. A fee charged under this
	section is in addition to any use or service fee authorized to be
	charged under other law.
	(b) The health and wellness 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) $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 charged under this section shall be
	deposited to the credit of an account known as the University of
	Houston-Victoria Health and Wellness 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 health and wellness
	center together with a complete report of all health and wellness
	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
	charged under this section, except that a fee increase by 10 percent
	or more of the amount of the fee charged during the preceding
	academic year must be 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 an
	election under this subsection must clearly state the amount of the
	proposed fee increase and describe the reason for the proposed fee
	increase.

	(f) The health and wellness center fee is not considered in
	determining the maximum amount of student services fees that may be
	charged under Section 54.503.
	(g) 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 health and wellness 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, 2019.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 3312 was passed by the House on May 3,
	2019, by the following vote: Yeas 109, Nays 31, 2 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 3312 on May 24, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 110, Nays 32,
	2 present, not voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House

	I certify that H.B. No. 3312 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays
	4.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date

	__________________
	Governor