1-1  By:  Harris (Senate Sponsor - Brown)                  H.B. No. 1689
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 12, 1995;
    1-3  April 18, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Education; April 19, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 19, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to training for members of the governing boards of public
    1-9  institutions of higher education.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 61.083(a), Education Code, as added by
   1-12  Chapter 621, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993,
   1-13  is amended to read as follows:
   1-14        (a)  The board by rule shall establish a training program for
   1-15  members of the governing boards of institutions of higher
   1-16  education.  Each member of a governing board of an institution of
   1-17  higher education the members of which are appointed shall attend,
   1-18  during the member's first two years of service as a member of a
   1-19  governing board of an institution of higher education, at least one
   1-20  training program <seminar> under this section.  A member of a
   1-21  governing board of an institution of higher education the members
   1-22  of which are elected may attend a training program conducted under
   1-23  this section.  A member of a governing board who is required to
   1-24  attend a training program under this section may, but need not,
   1-25  attend additional training programs <seminars> under this section.
   1-26        SECTION 2.  Section 2, Chapter 621, Acts of the 73rd
   1-27  Legislature, Regular Session, 1993,  does not require a member of
   1-28  the governing board of an institution of higher education the
   1-29  members of which are elected to attend a training seminar under
   1-30  Section 61.083, Education Code.
   1-31        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-32  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-33  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-34  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-35  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-36  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-37  passage, and it is so enacted.
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