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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