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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
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