By Harris H.B. No. 1689
74R6204 JSA-D
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. Sections 61.083(a) and (b), Education Code, as
1-6 added by Chapter 621, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular
1-7 Session, 1993, are 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. A <Each> member of a governing board of an institution
1-11 of higher education may <shall> attend a<, during the member's
1-12 first two years of service as a member of a governing board of an
1-13 institution of higher education, at least one> training program
1-14 seminar under this section. <A member may, but need not, attend
1-15 additional seminars under this section.>
1-16 (b) The training program must include a two-day seminar held
1-17 at times and locations determined by the board <annually in Austin>
1-18 to be conducted by the staff of the board, by representatives from
1-19 the office of the attorney general, the office of the comptroller
1-20 of public accounts, the office of the state auditor, and the Texas
1-21 Ethics Commission, and by other training personnel the board deems
1-22 necessary.
1-23 SECTION 2. Section 2, Chapter 621, Acts of the 73rd
1-24 Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is repealed.
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.