By: Miles S.B. No. 480
(In the Senate - Filed January 27, 2021; March 9, 2021, read
first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;
April 6, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 6, 2021,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 480 By: West
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the student union fee at the University of Houston.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 54.526(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) The board of regents of the University of Houston System
may levy a student union fee, not to exceed $150 per student for
each regular semester and not to exceed $75 per student for each
term of the summer session. The sole purpose of the fee is
financing, constructing, operating, maintaining, [and] improving,
and providing programming at a Student Union Building for the
University of Houston. 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 54.526(a), Education Code, as amended by
this Act, applies to student fees imposed for a semester or term
beginning before, 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, 2021.
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