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89(R) HB 2853 - Enrolled version - Bill Text
H.B. No. 2853
AN ACT
relating to student union building fees at The University of Texas
at El Paso.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 54.535(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System
may levy a student union fee [
not to exceed $30 per student for each
regular semester or each summer session of six weeks or more, and
not to exceed $15 per student for each summer session of less than
six weeks,
] for the sole purpose of financing, constructing,
operating, maintaining, and improving a student union building for
The University of Texas at El Paso
, including demolition of the
existing student union building
; provided, however, that the fee
may not be increased
to an amount that exceeds by at least 10
percent the amount of the fee levied during the preceding academic
year,
[
above $15 per student for each regular semester or each
summer session of six weeks or more and $7.50 per student for each
summer session of less than six weeks
] unless the increase is
approved by a majority vote of [
those
] students
enrolled at the
university
participating in a general
student
election
held for
that purpose
.
A fee imposed under this section is
[
The fees herein
authorized to be levied are
] in addition to any
other
[
use or
service
] fee
the board is
[
now or hereafter
] authorized
by law
to
impose
[
be levied
].
SECTION 2. Section 54.535, Education Code, as amended by
this Act, applies beginning with student union fees collected for
the 2026 spring semester.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
______________________________
______________________________
President of the Senate
Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2853 was passed by the House on May 1,
2025, by the following vote: Yeas 80, Nays 55, 1 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 2853 on May 29, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 105, Nays 34,
1 present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2853 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 27, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays
4.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
__________________
Governor