73R7061 SOS-F
          By Bailey                                             H.B. No. 1535
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1535:
          By Hunter of Taylor                               C.S.H.B. No. 1535
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of public institutions of higher
    1-3  education to require or coerce faculty members to join an
    1-4  organization or to discourage or prohibit faculty members from
    1-5  joining an organization or from participating in political affairs.
    1-6        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-7        SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
    1-8  amended by adding Section 51.929 to read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 51.929.  PROHIBITION AGAINST REQUIRING, COERCING,
   1-10  DISCOURAGING, OR PROHIBITING FACULTY FROM CERTAIN ACTIONS.  (a)  An
   1-11  institution of higher education, a member of the governing board of
   1-12  an institution of higher education, or a member of the
   1-13  administrative staff of an institution of higher education may not
   1-14  directly or indirectly require or coerce any faculty member of the
   1-15  institution to join an organization or association or discourage or
   1-16  prohibit a faculty member of the institution from joining an
   1-17  organization or association or from participating in political
   1-18  affairs of the community or the government.
   1-19        (b)  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall
   1-20  enforce this section.
   1-21        (c)  In this section:
   1-22              (1)  "Faculty member" has the meaning assigned by
   1-23  Section 51.101 of this code.
   1-24              (2)  "Institution of higher education" has the meaning
    2-1  assigned by Section 61.003 of this code.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  Not later than October 1, 1993, the Texas Higher
    2-3  Education Coordinating Board shall notify the president of each
    2-4  public institution of higher education of the conduct prohibited by
    2-5  Section 51.929, Education Code, as added by this Act.
    2-6        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-7        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.