Bill Text: TX HB1271 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the student union fee at the University of Houston.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-04 - Referred to Higher Education [HB1271 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1271-Introduced.html
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| By: Coleman | H.B. No. 1271 | |
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| 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, [ |
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| 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 Section 54.526(c), Education Code, is repealed. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 54.526, 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 4. 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. | ||
