By:  Sibley                                           S.B. No. 1157
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the administration of medical and dental units of
    1-2  public institutions of higher education.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Section 51.932 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 51.932.  RETIREMENT INCENTIVES.  (a)  A medical and
    1-7  dental unit may offer retirement incentives to employees of the
    1-8  unit who are eligible to retire under Subtitle C, Title 8,
    1-9  Government Code.
   1-10        (b)  A medical and dental unit offering retirement incentives
   1-11  shall provide the Legislative Budget Board with such information
   1-12  concerning the incentives as may be required by the board, and
   1-13  shall file any incentives plan with the board at least sixty days
   1-14  before the date the plan is implemented.
   1-15        (c)  An employee receiving retirement incentives under this
   1-16  section may not be rehired by a medical and dental unit without the
   1-17  specific approval of the president of the unit.  The president may
   1-18  not delegate this responsibility to any other employee of the unit.
   1-19        (d)  Any retirement incentive offered by a medical and dental
   1-20  unit must be paid from institutional funds or hospital or clinic
   1-21  fees.
   1-22        (e)  A retirement incentive paid by a medical and dental unit
   1-23  to a person is not subject to any provision of state law that
    2-1  entitles a person to any benefits based on salary or compensation,
    2-2  including but not limited to contributions provided for in Subtitle
    2-3  C, Title 8, Government Code.
    2-4        (f)  As used in this section:
    2-5              (1)  "Institutional funds" has the meaning assigned by
    2-6  Sec. 51.009, Education Code.
    2-7              (2)  "Medical and dental unit" has the meaning assigned
    2-8  by Section 61.003, Education Code and includes any health care
    2-9  facility operated by a medical and dental unit or health science
   2-10  center.
   2-11        SECTION 2.  The Legislative Audit Committee may hire an
   2-12  independent firm to report to it on the purchasing operations of a
   2-13  medical and dental unit.  The medical and dental unit shall
   2-14  cooperate with the firm hired to do the report and shall bear the
   2-15  costs of the study as determined by the Legislative Audit
   2-16  Committee.  As used in this section, "medical and dental unit" has
   2-17  the meaning assigned by Section 61.003, Education Code and includes
   2-18  any health care facility operated by a medical and dental unit or
   2-19  health science center.
   2-20        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-25  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    3-1  passage, and it is so enacted.