By: Patterson, J. S.B. No. 1428
73R9169 ESH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the State Department of Education and its employees.
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 (d) In each of the fiscal years ending August 31, 1994,
1-23 August 31, 1995, August 31, 1996, and August 31, 1997, the
1-24 commissioner of education shall reduce the number of full-time
2-1 equivalent employees of the State Department of Education by a
2-2 number equal to five percent of the number of the full-time
2-3 equivalent employees on the last day of the preceding fiscal year.
2-4 In this subsection, "full-time equivalent employee" has the meaning
2-5 assigned by Chapter 412, Acts of the 70th Legislature, Regular
2-6 Session, 1987 (Article 6252-16c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
2-7 This subsection expires September 1, 1997.
2-8 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.