Bill Text: TX HB3312 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.html
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-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Morrison | H.B. No. 3312 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3312: | |||
By: Wilson | C.S.H.B. No. 3312 |
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relating to authorizing a health 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. HEALTH 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 health and wellness center fee. The fee may be | ||
used only for the purpose of financing, constructing, operating, | ||
maintaining, improving, and equipping a health 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 health 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 Health 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 health and wellness | ||
center together with a complete report of all health 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 health 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 health 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. |