Bill Text: TX SB1145 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the intercollegiate athletics fee at Prairie View A&M University; authorizing an increase in the fee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB1145 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1145-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 1145 |
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relating to the intercollegiate athletics fee at Prairie View A&M | ||
University; authorizing an increase in the fee. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subsections (a), (b), and (f), Section 54.5393, | ||
Education Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The board of regents of The Texas A&M University System | ||
may impose an intercollegiate athletics fee on each student | ||
enrolled at Prairie View A&M University in an amount not to exceed | ||
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increased as provided by Subsection (b). | ||
(b) The amount of the fee per semester credit hour may be | ||
increased from one academic year to the next if: | ||
(1) the increase is approved by a majority vote of the | ||
students participating in a general student election held at the | ||
university for that purpose; or | ||
(2) the amount of the increase does not exceed five | ||
percent and is approved by a majority vote of the legislative body | ||
of the student government of the university [ |
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(f) This section expires September 1, 2018 [ |
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that this section does not expire if before the end of the 2017-2018 | ||
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are payable wholly or partly from the fee. If the board of regents | ||
issues bonds as described by this subsection, the fee authorized by | ||
this section may not be imposed in any semester or session beginning | ||
after the date on which all of those bonds, including refunding | ||
bonds for the bonds, have been fully paid. | ||
SECTION 2. Subsections (a) and (b), Section 54.5393, | ||
Education Code, as amended by this Act, apply only to a fee imposed | ||
for a semester that begins on or after the effective date of this | ||
Act. | ||
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, 2013. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1145 passed the Senate on | ||
May 2, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1145 passed the House on | ||
May 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 2, two | ||
present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |