Bill Text: TX SB1552 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to an environmental service fee charged by an institution of higher education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-21 - Referred to Higher Education [SB1552 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB1552-Introduced.html

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85R13098 SRS-D
By: Menéndez S.B. No. 1552

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an environmental service fee charged by an institution
of higher education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 54.5041(h), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(h) The fee may not be charged after the fifth academic year
following the most recent academic year in which the fee was
approved by a majority vote of the students enrolled at the
institution unless the fee is reauthorized and approved by a
majority vote of the students enrolled at the institution
participating in a new general student election called for that
purpose [in which the fee is first charged unless, before the end of
that academic year, the institution has issued bonds payable in
whole or in part from the fee, in which event the fee may not be
charged after the academic year in which all such bonds, including
refunding bonds for those bonds, have been fully paid].
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, 2017.