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1	1	S.B. No. 256
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4	4	AN ACT
5	5	relating to an intercollegiate athletics fee at Midwestern State
6	6	University.
7	7	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
8	8	SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
9	9	amended by adding Section 54.5442 to read as follows:
10	10	Sec. 54.5442. INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS FEE; MIDWESTERN
11	11	STATE UNIVERSITY. (a) The board of regents of Midwestern State
12	12	University may charge each student enrolled at the university an
13	13	intercollegiate athletics fee in an amount that, except as
14	14	authorized under Subsection (d), may not exceed:
15	15	(1) the lesser of $10 per semester credit hour or $120
16	16	for each regular semester or each summer session of more than six
17	17	weeks; or
18	18	(2) $60 for each summer session of six weeks or less.
19	19	(b) The fee may not be charged unless approved by a majority
20	20	vote of the students enrolled at the university who participate in a
21	21	general student election held for that purpose.
22	22	(c) The fee may be used only to develop and maintain an
23	23	intercollegiate athletics program at the university.
24	24	(d) The board of regents may increase the amount of the fee
25	25	for a semester or summer session in excess of the applicable amount
26	26	provided by Subsection (a) if the increase:
27	27	(1) is approved by a majority vote of the students
28	28	enrolled at the university who participate in a general student
29	29	election called for that purpose; or
30	30	(2) does not exceed 10 percent of the amount of the fee
31	31	charged for the same semester or summer session in the preceding
32	32	academic year.
33	33	(e) The chief fiscal officer of the university shall collect
34	34	the fee and shall deposit the revenue from the fee in an account to
35	35	be known as the Midwestern State University intercollegiate
36	36	athletics fee account.
37	37	(f) The fee is not considered in determining the maximum
38	38	amount of student services fees that may be charged under Section
39	39	54.503.
40	40	(g) A fee may not be charged after the fifth academic year in
41	41	which the fee is first charged unless, before the end of that
42	42	academic year, the institution of higher education has issued bonds
43	43	payable from the fee, in which event the fee may not be charged
44	44	after the academic year in which all such bonds, including
45	45	refunding bonds for those bonds, have been fully paid.
46	46	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
47	47	to fees imposed for a semester or term that begins on or after the
48	48	effective date of this Act.
49	49	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
50	50	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
51	51	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
52	52	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
53	53	Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
54	54	______________________________ ______________________________
55	55	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
56	56	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 256 passed the Senate on
57	57	April 29, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
58	58	______________________________
59	59	Secretary of the Senate
60	60	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 256 passed the House on
61	61	May 15, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, one
62	62	present not voting.
63	63	______________________________
64	64	Chief Clerk of the House
65	65	Approved:
66	66	______________________________
67	67	Date
68	68	______________________________
69	69	Governor