By:  Moncrief                                          S.B. No. 156
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the training requirements for members of governing
    1-2  boards of state agencies.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Title 110A, Revised Statutes, is amended by
    1-5  adding Article 6252-9g to read as follows:
    1-6        Art. 6252-9g.  TRAINING AND GUIDELINES FOR MEMBERS OF STATE
    1-7  AGENCY BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.  (a)  In this article:
    1-8              (1)  "Governing board" means the governing body of a
    1-9  state agency.
   1-10              (2)  "State agency" means a department, commission,
   1-11  board, office, or other agency in the executive branch of state
   1-12  government, created under the constitution or a statute, whose
   1-13  authority is statewide.
   1-14        (b)  The governor's office by rule shall establish for each
   1-15  state agency:
   1-16              (1)  a training program for members of the governing
   1-17  board, administered by the professional staff of the state agency,
   1-18  including the state agency's legal counsel, and by representatives
   1-19  from the office of the attorney general and the Texas Ethics
   1-20  Commission; and
   1-21              (2)  an advisory committee to develop training
   1-22  guidelines that includes representatives of those licensed by the
   1-23  state agency if the state agency engages in licensing.
    2-1        (c)  Before a member of a governing board may assume office,
    2-2  the member shall attend at least one training session administered
    2-3  as provided by Subsection (b)(1) to receive information relating
    2-4  to, as applicable:
    2-5              (1)  the enabling legislation that created the state
    2-6  agency;
    2-7              (2)  the programs the state agency operates;
    2-8              (3)  the role and function of the state agency;
    2-9              (4)  the rules and regulations of the state agency with
   2-10  an emphasis on those relating to disciplinary and investigative
   2-11  authority;
   2-12              (5)  the current budget for the state agency;
   2-13              (6)  the results of the most recent formal audit of the
   2-14  state agency;
   2-15              (7)  the requirements of the open meetings law, Chapter
   2-16  271, Acts of the  60th Legislature, Regular Session, 1967 (Article
   2-17  6252-17, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), and the open records law,
   2-18  Chapter 424, Acts of the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973
   2-19  (Article 6252-17a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes);
   2-20              (8)  the requirements of conflict of interest laws and
   2-21  other laws relating to public officials; and
   2-22              (9)  any applicable ethics policies adopted by the
   2-23  state agency or the Texas Ethics Commission.
   2-24        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-25        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is here by
    3-5  suspended.