Sec. 54.5441. STUDENT RECREATIONAL AND HEALTH FACILITIES FEE; MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY

(a) The board of regents of Midwestern State University may charge each student enrolled at the university a recreational and health facilities fee not to exceed $130 per semester or summer session of longer than six weeks or $65 per summer session of six weeks or less. The fee may be used to finance, construct, operate, renovate, or maintain recreational and wellness facilities and programs at the university.

(b) The recreational and health facilities fee authorized by this section may not be increased more than 10 percent from one academic year to the next unless the increase has been approved by a majority vote of those students participating in a general student election called for that purpose. The fee may not exceed the amounts provided by Subsection (a).

(c) The chief fiscal officer of the university shall collect any recreational and health facilities fee imposed under this section and shall deposit the money collected in an account to be known as the student recreational and health facilities account.

(d) A recreational and health facilities fee imposed under this section is not counted in determining the maximum student services fee that may be charged under Section 54.503.

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 616 , Sec. 1, eff. June 17, 2005.