H.B. No. 1689
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to training for members of the governing boards of public
1-3 institutions of higher education.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 61.083(a), Education Code, as added by
1-6 Chapter 621, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993,
1-7 is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (a) The board by rule shall establish a training program for
1-9 members of the governing boards of institutions of higher
1-10 education. Each member of a governing board of an institution of
1-11 higher education the members of which are appointed shall attend,
1-12 during the member's first two years of service as a member of a
1-13 governing board of an institution of higher education, at least one
1-14 training program <seminar> under this section. A member of a
1-15 governing board of an institution of higher education the members
1-16 of which are elected may attend a training program conducted under
1-17 this section. A member of a governing board who is required to
1-18 attend a training program under this section may, but need not,
1-19 attend additional training programs <seminars> under this section.
1-20 SECTION 2. Section 2, Chapter 621, Acts of the 73rd
1-21 Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, does not require a member of
1-22 the governing board of an institution of higher education the
1-23 members of which are elected to attend a training seminar under
1-24 Section 61.083, Education Code.
2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.