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.