By Naishtat                                           H.B. No. 2851
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to persons who are considered faculty members for purposes
    1-3  of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 821.001(8), Government Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7              (8)  "Faculty member" means a person who is employed by
    1-8  an institution of higher education:
    1-9                    (A)  on a full-time basis as:
   1-10                          (i) <(A)>  a member of the faculty whose
   1-11  duties include teaching or research;
   1-12                          (ii) <(B)>  an administrator responsible
   1-13  for teaching and research faculty;
   1-14                          (iii) <(C)>  a member of the administrative
   1-15  staff of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; or
   1-16                          (iv) <(D)>  a professional librarian, a
   1-17  president, a chancellor, a vice-president, a vice-chancellor, or
   1-18  other professional staff person whose national mobility
   1-19  requirements are similar to those of faculty members and who fills
   1-20  a position that is the subject of nationwide searches in the
   1-21  academic community; or
   1-22                    (B)  as a member of the faculty whose primary
   1-23  duty is teaching and on a basis that is at least half-time, if at
    2-1  least 80 percent of the teaching staff at that institution of
    2-2  higher education teach on a basis that is less than full-time.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  Section 821.001(8), Government Code, as amended
    2-4  by this Act, applies beginning with the fall semester, 1995, to a
    2-5  person employed by an institution of higher education.
    2-6        SECTION 3.  The board of trustees of the Teacher Retirement
    2-7  System of Texas shall adopt rules as necessary to implement Section
    2-8  821.001(8), Government Code, as amended by this Act, as soon as
    2-9  practicable after the effective date of this Act.
   2-10        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-15  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-16  passage, and it is so enacted.