By Turner, Barrientos, et al. S.B. No. 254
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 254:
By Delco C.S.S.B. No. 254
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the representation of college and university students
1-3 on the governing boards of their university systems.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 3, Education Code, is amended
1-6 by adding Chapter 63 to read as follows:
1-7 CHAPTER 63. STUDENT REPRESENTATION ON
1-8 GOVERNING BOARDS
1-9 SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
1-10 Sec. 63.01. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
1-11 (1) "Member school" means a general academic teaching
1-12 institution or a medical and dental unit as those terms are defined
1-13 by Section 61.003 of this code.
1-14 (2) "University system" has the meaning assigned by
1-15 Section 61.003(10) of this code.
1-16 (3) "Governing board" or "board" has the meaning
1-17 assigned by Section 61.003(9) of this code.
1-18 (Sections 63.02-63.10 reserved for expansion
1-19 SUBCHAPTER B. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
1-20 Sec. 63.11. ADVISORY STUDENT LIAISON. If the students of
1-21 any member school choose to participate in the program under this
1-22 chapter, the governing board of each university system shall
1-23 include a nonvoting advisory student liaison, selected as provided
1-24 by this subchapter.
2-1 Sec. 63.12. QUALIFICATIONS; TERMS. The advisory student
2-2 liaison nominee must be a qualified voter. The advisory student
2-3 liaison serves for a term of one year, beginning September 1.
2-4 Sec. 63.13. SCHOOLS LACKING STUDENT GOVERNMENT. At member
2-5 schools lacking student government, any duty assigned by this
2-6 chapter to the student government shall be performed by the general
2-7 student population through referendum.
2-8 Sec. 63.14. OPTIONAL PARTICIPATION. A member school may not
2-9 participate in the program under this chapter unless the students
2-10 of the member school choose to participate through their student
2-11 government. The student government of a member school may remove
2-12 the school from program participation.
2-13 Sec. 63.15. NOMINATION AND SELECTION IN MULTISCHOOL SYSTEMS
2-14 IN WHICH MORE THAN ONE SCHOOL PARTICIPATES. (a) The student
2-15 government of each member school of a university system consisting
2-16 of more than one member school that participates in the program
2-17 shall select representatives for membership on the system's student
2-18 advisory council as provided by Section 63.31 of this code. The
2-19 student advisory council shall nominate three of its members for
2-20 the position of advisory student liaison for the university system
2-21 and shall send those three nominations to the governor not later
2-22 than June 1 of each year.
2-23 (b) The governor shall select an advisory student liaison
2-24 for each university system consisting of more than one member
2-25 school that participates in the program from a list composed of the
2-26 nominations sent to the governor under Subsection (a) of this
2-27 section. The governor shall announce the selections not later than
3-1 August 1 of each year.
3-2 Sec. 63.16. NOMINATION AND SELECTION IN SINGLE-SCHOOL
3-3 SYSTEMS AND IN MULTISCHOOL SYSTEMS IN WHICH ONLY ONE SCHOOL
3-4 PARTICIPATES. (a) The student government of a member school of a
3-5 university system consisting of only one member school or of only
3-6 one member school that participates in the program shall nominate
3-7 three students for the position of advisory student liaison. One
3-8 of the nominees may be the school's student government president.
3-9 The nominations shall be forwarded to the governor not later than
3-10 June 1 of each year.
3-11 (b) The advisory student liaison for each single-school
3-12 university system or of each multischool university system in which
3-13 only one school participates in the program shall be selected by
3-14 the governor from a list composed of the nominations of the member
3-15 school. The governor shall announce the selections not later than
3-16 August 1 of each year.
3-17 Sec. 63.17. CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT. The secretary of
3-18 state shall forward a certificate to the advisory student liaison
3-19 for each university system within 10 days after the appointment
3-20 notifying the student of the appointment. If any person so
3-21 appointed and notified fails for 10 days to give notice to the
3-22 governor of acceptance, the appointment is void, and the place
3-23 shall be filled from the remaining students on the nomination list.
3-24 Sec. 63.18. EXPENSES OF ADVISORY STUDENT LIAISON. An
3-25 advisory student liaison of each university system serves without
3-26 compensation, and any costs incurred shall be paid by the student
3-27 liaison or from revenue collected from the student services fee.
4-1 (Sections 63.19-63.20 reserved for expansion
4-2 SUBCHAPTER C. POWERS AND DUTIES OF ADVISORY STUDENT LIAISON
4-3 Sec. 63.21. NONVOTING LIAISON TO BOARD. (a) The advisory
4-4 student liaison shall represent the interests of university system
4-5 students and provide insight to the board as to the perspective of
4-6 system students.
4-7 (b) An advisory student liaison has the same rights as any
4-8 board member to voice opinions, to make recommendations, or to
4-9 otherwise participate in all board meetings, except that an
4-10 advisory student liaison is not entitled to vote on any matter
4-11 before the board. An advisory student liaison may not be included
4-12 in an executive meeting of the board.
4-13 Sec. 63.22. ATTENDANCE AT BOARD MEETINGS. An advisory
4-14 student liaison shall attend each meeting of the governing board.
4-15 Failure to attend two consecutive board meetings voids the
4-16 appointment of the advisory student liaison. The student's place
4-17 shall be filled by the governor from the remaining advisory student
4-18 liaison nominees, subject to the restrictions in Subchapter B of
4-19 this chapter.
4-20 (Sections 63.23-63.30 reserved for expansion
4-21 SUBCHAPTER D. SYSTEM STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL
4-22 Sec. 63.31. SYSTEM STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL. Each member
4-23 school of a university system consisting of more than one member
4-24 school that participates in the program shall be represented on a
4-25 system student advisory council. The student advisory council
4-26 shall consist of two student representatives from each member
4-27 school, except that institutions with doctoral programs may send a
5-1 third representative. One of the representatives from a member
5-2 school may be that school's student government president. Each
5-3 member school's representatives to the student advisory council
5-4 shall be chosen not later than April 1 of each year.
5-5 Sec. 63.32. POWERS AND DUTIES OF STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL.
5-6 The system student advisory council shall meet on a schedule to be
5-7 determined by the council members to ensure that the advisory
5-8 student liaison is aware of the concerns of the students of each
5-9 member school. The council shall meet before June 1 of each year
5-10 to select the student advisory liaison nominees to be presented to
5-11 the governor as provided by Section 63.15 of this code. The
5-12 council also shall meet at least once before the first governing
5-13 board meeting of each year following the certification of and
5-14 acceptance by the advisory student liaison.
5-15 Sec. 63.33. CHAIRMAN OF SYSTEM STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL.
5-16 The system student advisory council for each university system
5-17 shall be chaired by the advisory student liaison for that
5-18 university system.
5-19 Sec. 63.34. ATTENDANCE AT SYSTEM STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL
5-20 MEETINGS. Each system student advisory council member shall attend
5-21 each meeting of the council. Failure to attend two consecutive
5-22 council meetings voids the membership of the absent member, and the
5-23 place shall be filled by nomination of the member school under
5-24 Section 63.15(a) of this code. If the absent member is the
5-25 advisory student liaison, the member's position as advisory student
5-26 liaison also is forfeited and shall be filled from the remaining
5-27 council members, subject to the restrictions under Subchapter B of
6-1 this chapter.
6-2 SECTION 2. Chapter 63, Education Code, expires on September
6-3 1, 1997.
6-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
6-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
6-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
6-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
6-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
6-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
6-10 passage, and is so enacted.