By Haywood S.B. No. 610 75R1437 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the establishment of faculty compensation policies at 1-3 state-supported 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 51.9085 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 51.9085. FACULTY COMPENSATION POLICY UNTIL 2003. 1-8 (a) The governing board of each institution of higher education 1-9 shall determine if the average salary of each faculty level at that 1-10 institution for the state fiscal biennium ending September 1, 1997, 1-11 is greater than or less than the average salary for that faculty 1-12 level paid at public institutions of higher education by the 10 1-13 most populous states, not including this state, according to the 1-14 most recent information available. 1-15 (b) If the average salary of a faculty level at the 1-16 institution is less than the average salary for that faculty level 1-17 paid by the other states, the coordinating board shall provide to 1-18 the governing board a formula to reduce the percentage difference 1-19 between the average salaries by one-third in each of the next three 1-20 state fiscal bienniums, to the extent funds are available, so that 1-21 at the end of the third biennium the average salary of each faculty 1-22 level at institutions of higher education in this state is equal to 1-23 or exceeds the average salary of the faculty level paid by the 1-24 other states. 2-1 (c) A formula developed under this section shall be adjusted 2-2 for the difference in the mean cost of living of each of the other 2-3 states and the cost of living in this state, as determined by the 2-4 coordinating board. 2-5 (d) In addition to information collected under Section 2-6 51.908, the coordinating board shall include in the board's master 2-7 plan for higher education and in appropriate reports to the 2-8 legislature information relating to the average salary of each 2-9 level of faculty at public institutions of higher education in each 2-10 of the 10 most populous states, excluding this state, adjusted to 2-11 reflect differences between the mean cost of living in each of 2-12 those states and the mean cost of living in this state. 2-13 (e) This section expires August 31, 2003. 2-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-20 passage, and it is so enacted.