Sec. 54.5442. INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS FEE; MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY. (a) The board of regents of Midwestern State University may charge each student enrolled at the university an intercollegiate athletics fee in an amount that, except as authorized under Subsection (d), may not exceed:

(1) the lesser of $10 per semester credit hour or $120 for each regular semester or each summer session of more than six weeks; or

(2) $60 for each summer session of six weeks or less.

(b) 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.

(c) The fee may be used only to develop and maintain an intercollegiate athletics program at the university.

(d) The board of regents may increase the amount of the fee for a semester or summer session in excess of the applicable amount provided by Subsection (a) if the increase:

(1) is approved by a majority vote of the students enrolled at the university who participate in a general student election called for that purpose; or

(2) does not exceed 10 percent of the amount of the fee charged for the same semester or summer session in the preceding academic year.

(e) 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 Midwestern State University intercollegiate athletics fee account.

(f) The fee is not considered in determining the maximum amount of student services fees that may be charged under Section 54.503.

(g) A fee may not be charged after the fifth academic year in which the fee is first charged unless, before the end of that academic year, the institution of higher education has issued bonds payable 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.

Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 202 (S.B. 256), Sec. 1, eff. May 27, 2009.