Bill Text: TX HB3741 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an intercollegiate athletics fee at Texas A&M University.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-23 - Referred to Higher Education [HB3741 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3741-Introduced.html
| By: Brown | H.B. No. 3741 | |
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| relating to an intercollegiate athletics fee at Texas A&M | ||
| University. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 54.5399, to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 54.5399. INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS FEE; TEXAS A&M | ||
| UNIVERSITY. (a) The board of regents of The Texas A&M University | ||
| System may impose an intercollegiate athletics fee on each student | ||
| enrolled at Texas A&M University. The fee may not be imposed unless | ||
| approved by a majority vote of the students participating in a | ||
| general student election held at the university for that purpose. | ||
| (b) The amount of the fee may not exceed $4 per semester | ||
| credit hour for each semester with a duration of 12 weeks or more, | ||
| unless the amount is increased as provided by Subsection (c). | ||
| (c) The amount of the fee may not be increased to an amount | ||
| that exceeds by 10 percent or more the total amount of the fee as | ||
| last approved by a student vote under Subsection (a) or this | ||
| subsection unless the increase is approved by a majority vote of the | ||
| students participating in a general student election held for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| (d) The amount of the fee imposed on a student in a semester | ||
| with a duration of 12 weeks or more may not exceed the amount of the | ||
| fee imposed on a student enrolled in 15 semester credit hours during | ||
| the same semester. | ||
| (e) A fee imposed under this section may be used to develop | ||
| and maintain an intercollegiate athletics program at the | ||
| university. | ||
| (f) A fee imposed under this section is in addition to any | ||
| other fee authorized by law and may not be considered in determining | ||
| the amount of student services fees that may be imposed under | ||
| Section 54.503(b). | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to a fee imposed for a semester or term that begins 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, 2011. | ||
