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

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By: Morrison (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst) H.B. No. 3312
(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. 3312 By: Watson

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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. The ballot proposition for an
election under this subsection must clearly state the amount of the
proposed fee increase and describe the reason for the proposed fee
increase.
(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.
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