By Davila H.B. No. 3125 75R7366 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to student participation in the selection or retention of 1-3 food service providers at institutions of higher education. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 51.945 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 51.945. STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN SELECTION OF FOOD 1-8 SERVICE CONTRACTS. (a) The governing board of an institution of 1-9 higher education shall develop and implement policies that provide 1-10 the students at the institution with a reasonable opportunity to 1-11 appear before any committee or other entity that is determining 1-12 whether a food service provider should be selected or retained by 1-13 the institution. The policies shall provide the students with a 1-14 reasonable opportunity to discuss the performance of a food service 1-15 provider and the students' recommendations for qualifications of 1-16 food service providers. 1-17 (b) A contract between an institution of higher education 1-18 and a food service provider must require the food service provider 1-19 to periodically hold meetings or forums to provide the students at 1-20 the institution with a reasonable opportunity to discuss the 1-21 performance of the food service provider. 1-22 (c) In this section: 1-23 (1) "Food service provider" means a person who 1-24 contracts with the institution to provide food or beverage service 2-1 at any location on the premises of the institution. 2-2 (2) "Governing board" and "institution of higher 2-3 education" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003. 2-4 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 2-5 applies only to a food service contract entered into by an 2-6 institution of higher education on or after the effective date of 2-7 this Act. A food service contract entered into before the effective 2-8 date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed before the 2-9 effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for 2-10 that purpose. 2-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.