Bill Text: TX HB3312 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to authorizing a health and wellness center fee at the University of Houston-Victoria.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB3312 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB3312-Introduced.html

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86R12588 SOS-F
By: Morrison H.B. No. 3312

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to authorizing a recreation and wellness center fee at the
University of Houston-Victoria.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 54.5406 to read as follows:
Sec. 54.5406. RECREATION AND WELLNESS CENTER FEE;
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON-VICTORIA. (a) The board of regents of the
University of Houston System may charge each student enrolled at
the University of Houston-Victoria a recreation and wellness center
fee. The fee may be used only for the purpose of financing,
constructing, operating, maintaining, improving, and equipping a
recreation and wellness center at the University of
Houston-Victoria. A fee charged under this section is in addition
to any use or service fee authorized to be charged under other law.
(b) The recreation and wellness center fee may not be
charged unless the charging of the fee is approved by a majority
vote of the students enrolled at the university participating in a
general student election held for that purpose.
(c) The amount of a fee charged under this section may not
exceed:
(1) $150 per student for each regular semester;
(2) $100 per student for each summer session of 10
weeks or longer; or
(3) $50 per student for each summer session of less
than 10 weeks.
(d) Revenue from a fee charged under this section shall be
deposited to the credit of an account known as the University of
Houston-Victoria Recreation and Wellness Center Fee Account under
the control of the university's student fee advisory committee.
Annually, the committee shall submit to the president of the
university its recommendation for any change to the amount of the
fee and a complete and itemized budget for the recreation and
wellness center together with a complete report of all recreation
and wellness center activities conducted during the past year and
all expenditures made in connection with those activities. The
president shall submit the budget to the board of regents as part of
the university's institutional budget. The board of regents may
make changes in the budget that the board determines are necessary.
(e) The board of regents may increase the amount of a fee
charged under this section, except that a fee increase by 10 percent
or more of the amount of the fee charged during the preceding
academic year must be approved by a majority vote of students
enrolled at the university participating in a general student
election held for that purpose.
(f) The recreation and wellness center fee is not considered
in determining the maximum amount of student services fees that may
be charged under Section 54.503.
(g) For purposes of determining whether to waive the
imposition of the fee as provided under Section 54.5035, a student
is not reasonably able to use the recreation and wellness center for
which a fee is imposed under this section if the student lives more
than 50 miles outside the corporate limits of Victoria, Texas.
SECTION 2. 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.