By: Estes S.B. No. 596
(In the Senate - Filed February 17, 2015; February 23, 2015,
read first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;
March 25, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 0; March 25, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the imposition of the student centers fee at Texas
Woman's University.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 54.525, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
follows:
(a) The board of regents of Texas Woman's University may
levy a regular, fixed student fee of not less than $25 or more than
$75 [$40] per student for each semester of the long session and of
not less than $12.50 or more than $35 [$20] per student for each
term of the summer session, as the board determines is just and
necessary for the purpose of financing, improving, operating,
maintaining, and equipping student centers and acquiring or
constructing additions to student centers.
(d) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the board may increase
the amount of the fee for a semester or summer session to an amount
that does not exceed $150 if the increase is approved by a majority
vote of those students participating in a general election called
for that purpose. The increased amount under this subsection may
not be charged after the fifth academic year in which the increased
amount is first charged unless, before the end of that academic
year, the institution has issued bonds payable from the fee, in
which event the increased amount 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. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to fees imposed for a semester or term 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, 2015.
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