Sec. 54.546. STUDENT UNION FEES; THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE. (a) The board of regents of The University of Texas System may impose on each student enrolled at The University of Texas at Brownsville a student union fee of not less than $34.35 or more than $70 for each semester or long summer session for the sole purpose of financing, constructing, operating, maintaining, renovating, and improving a student union building owned by Texas Southmost College and used by the partnership of The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College under Section 78.02. The fee may be imposed in addition to any other fee.

(b) Revenue from the fee imposed under this section shall be deposited to an account known as The University of Texas at Brownsville student union account. Money in the account shall be used in accordance with the terms of the partnership agreements entered into between The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College under Section 78.02.

(c) The board of trustees of the Southmost Union Junior College District may pledge revenue from a fee imposed under this section, whether received directly from a student or from The University of Texas at Brownsville, under the terms of the partnership agreement between The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, for the payment of obligations issued by the Southmost Union Junior College District to finance the construction, operation, maintenance, renovation, and improvement of a student union building to be owned by Texas Southmost College and used by the two institutions under the partnership. If the fee imposed under this section is pledged to the payment of obligations issued by Southmost Union Junior College District, the board of regents of The University of Texas System may not pledge revenue from the fee for the payment of obligations issued for an authorized purpose under the revenue financing system of The University of Texas System.

(d) The board may not increase the amount of the fee by more than 10 percent in any academic year unless the amount of the increase is approved by a majority of the students voting in an election held for that purpose and by a majority of the members of the legislative body of the student government of the institution.

(e) Subject to the limitations of this section on the amount of the fee and any increase in the amount of the fee, the fee imposed under this section must be in the same amount as the student union fee charged a student at Texas Southmost College by the board of trustees of Southmost Union Junior College District. A student attending either or both institutions may be charged a student union fee by only one of the institutions.

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 113, Sec. 1, eff. May 17, 1999.