H.B. No. 4501
AN ACT
relating to an intercollegiate athletics fee at Texas Southern
University.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 54.5223 to read as follows:
Sec. 54.5223. INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS FEE: TEXAS
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY. (a) The board of regents of Texas Southern
University may impose an intercollegiate athletics fee on each
student enrolled at Texas Southern University in an amount not to
exceed $10 per semester credit hour.
(b) The amount of the fee imposed on a student in a semester
or session may not exceed the amount of the fee imposed on a student
enrolled in 15 semester credit hours during the same semester or
session.
(c) The fee may not be imposed unless approved by a majority
vote of the students of the university participating in a general
student election held for that purpose.
(d) The amount of the fee per semester credit hour may be
increased from one academic year to the next only if approved by a
majority vote of the students of the university participating in a
general student election held for that purpose.
(e) A fee imposed under this section may be used to develop
and maintain an intercollegiate athletics program at the
university.
(f) A fee imposed under this section is in addition to any
other fee authorized by law and may not be considered in determining
the maximum amount of student services fees that may be imposed
under Section 54.503.
(g) The fee may not be charged after the fifth academic year
in which the fee is first charged unless, before the end of that
academic year, the university has issued bonds payable in whole or
in part from the fee, in which event the fee may not be charged after
the academic year in which all such bonds, including refunding
bonds for those bonds, have been fully paid.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2009 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, 2009.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 4501 was passed by the House on May 5,
2009, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 4501 was passed by the Senate on May
23, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor