73R7821 CAS-F
          By Hernandez                                          H.B. No. 2366
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2366:
          By Sadler                                         C.S.H.B. No. 2366
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the State Department of Education.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 11.62, Education Code, is amended to read
    1-5  as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 11.62.  Organization and Regulations.  (a)  The State
    1-7  Department of Education shall be organized into divisions and
    1-8  subdivisions established by the commissioner of education <subject
    1-9  to the approval of the State Board of Education>.
   1-10        (b)  Directors of the major divisions of the State Department
   1-11  of Education, and all of its other employees, shall be appointed by
   1-12  the commissioner of education <pursuant to general rules and
   1-13  regulations adopted by the State Board of Education>.
   1-14        (c)  The rules and regulations pertaining to personnel
   1-15  administration shall include a comprehensive classification plan,
   1-16  including an appropriate title for each position, a description of
   1-17  duties and responsibilities, and the minimum requirements of
   1-18  training, experience, and other qualifications essential for
   1-19  adequate performance of the work.  These rules and regulations
   1-20  shall likewise provide <tenure safeguards,> leave and retirement
   1-21  provisions<,> and establish hearing procedures.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-4  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-5  passage, and it is so enacted.