By: Rodriguez S.B. No. 1205
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the environmental services fee at public institutions
of higher education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (h), Section 54.5041, Education Code,
is amended to read as follows:
(h) 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,]
(1) the institution 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
(2) the continuation of the fee is approved by a
majority vote of the students enrolled at the institution who
participate in a general student election called for that purpose.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
the 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, 2015.