Bill Text: TX HB671 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to an intercollegiate athletics fee at Stephen F. Austin State University; authorizing imposition of a fee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-01 - Effective immediately [HB671 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB671-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 671 |
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relating to an intercollegiate athletics fee at Stephen F. Austin | ||
State University; authorizing imposition of a fee. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 54.5202 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 54.5202. INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS FEE; STEPHEN F. | ||
AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY. (a) The board of regents of Stephen F. | ||
Austin State University may charge each student enrolled at the | ||
university an intercollegiate athletics fee in an initial amount | ||
not to exceed $10 per semester credit hour for each semester or | ||
summer session. The amount of the fee may be increased only as | ||
provided by Subsection (f). | ||
(b) The board of regents may prorate the amount of the fee | ||
for a summer session. | ||
(c) A student enrolled in more than 15 semester credit hours | ||
shall pay the fee in an amount equal to the amount imposed on a | ||
student enrolled in 15 semester credit hours during the same | ||
semester or session. | ||
(d) Revenue from the fee charged under this section may be | ||
used only for financing, constructing, operating, maintaining, or | ||
improving an athletic facility or for operating an intercollegiate | ||
athletics program at the university. | ||
(e) The fee may not be charged unless approved by a majority | ||
vote of the students enrolled at the university who participate in a | ||
general student election held for that purpose. | ||
(f) The amount of the fee per semester credit hour may be | ||
increased from one academic year to the next only if approved by a | ||
majority vote of the students participating in a general student | ||
election held for that purpose or, if the amount of the increase | ||
does not exceed five percent, by a majority vote of the legislative | ||
body of the student government of the university. | ||
(g) The chief fiscal officer of the university shall collect | ||
the fee and shall deposit the revenue from the fee in an account to | ||
be known as the intercollegiate athletics fee account. | ||
(h) A fee charged under this section is not considered in | ||
determining the maximum amount of student services fees that may be | ||
charged each student enrolled at the university under Section | ||
54.503. | ||
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, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 671 was passed by the House on April | ||
16, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 130, Nays 16, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 671 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
19, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |