By: Turner of Tarrant (Senate Sponsor - West) H.B. No. 2718
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2019;
May 7, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher
Education; May 19, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0;
May 19, 2019, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2718 By: Powell
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to authorizing an increase in the student union fee at The
University of Texas at Arlington.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 54.529(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System
may levy a student union fee not to exceed $150 [$39] per student
for each regular semester and not to exceed $75 [$19.50] per student
for each term of the summer session, for the sole purpose of
financing, constructing, operating, maintaining, and improving the
Student Union Building for The University of Texas at Arlington.
The [; provided, however, that the] fee may not be increased above
an amount previously levied [$15 per student for each regular
semester and $7.50 per student for each term of the summer session]
unless the increase is approved by a majority vote of those students
participating in a general election held at the university for that
purpose. The ballot proposition for such an election must clearly
state the amount of the proposed fee increase and describe the
reason for the proposed fee increase. The fees herein authorized to
be levied are in addition to any use or service fee now or hereafter
authorized to be levied.
SECTION 2. Section 54.529(a), Education Code, as amended by
this Act, applies beginning with fees imposed for the 2019 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, 2019.
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