74R8549 JSA-D By Harris H.B. No. 1689 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1689: By Gallego C.S.H.B. No. 1689 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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 seminar 1-17 conducted under this section. A member of a governing board who is 1-18 required to attend a seminar under this section may, but need not, 1-19 attend additional 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.