By: Coleman H.B. No. 3792
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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 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. or unless reauthorized
by a majority vote of the students of the university participating
in a general student election held for that purpose.
SECTION 2. This Act will take effect September 1, 2014.