Bill Text: TX SB1678 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an intercollegiate athletics fee at the University of North Texas at Dallas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-17 - Left pending in committee [SB1678 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1678-Introduced.html
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By: West | S.B. No. 1678 |
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relating to an intercollegiate athletics fee at the University of | ||
North Texas at Dallas. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 54.5192 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 54.5192. INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS FEE; UNIVERSITY OF | ||
NORTH TEXAS AT DALLAS. (a) The board of regents of the University | ||
of North Texas System may charge each student enrolled at the | ||
University of North Texas at Dallas 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 (e). | ||
(b) A student enrolled in more than 12 semester credit hours | ||
shall pay the fee in an amount equal to the amount charged a student | ||
enrolled in 12 semester credit hours during the same semester or | ||
session. | ||
(c) 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. | ||
(d) 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. The ballot for the | ||
election to approve the fee must state a maximum amount of the fee | ||
that may be charged per semester credit hour, not to exceed the | ||
maximum amount prescribed by Subsection (a). | ||
(e) 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. | ||
(f) 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. | ||
(g) A fee charged under this section is in addition to any | ||
other fee authorized by law and may not be 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. A fee may not be charged under Section 54.5192, | ||
Education Code, as added by this Act, before the 2020 fall semester. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |