By: Ellis S.B. No. 1473 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the establishment of faculty classroom teaching load 1-2 standards for general academic teaching institutions. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 51, Subchapter H, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding a Section 51.406 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 51.406. CLASSROOM TEACHING LOAD STANDARDS. (a) No 1-7 later than the beginning of the summer session of 1998 for each 1-8 general academic teaching institution, the Coordinating Board shall 1-9 establish general standards for academic faculty classroom teaching 1-10 loads for all general academic teaching institutions. The 1-11 development of such classroom teaching load standards shall include 1-12 both lectures and seminars. The term general academic teaching 1-13 institutions shall be as defined in Section 61.003(3), of the 1-14 Education Code. The classroom teaching load standards shall apply 1-15 to professors, associate professors, and assistant professors. 1-16 Beginning fiscal year 2000, the classroom teaching load standards 1-17 established by the Coordinating Board shall be used to reduce the 1-18 funding base for affected general academic teaching institutions. 1-19 Funds saved from such reduction to the funding base shall be 1-20 deposited to the general revenue fund. Until such time as the 1-21 classroom teaching load standards are established, the Coordinating 2-1 Board shall use those standards as developed by the Comptroller's 2-2 Texas Performance Review division, as set forth in the 2-3 Comptroller's report to the Legislature titled, "Disturbing the 2-4 Peace: The Challenge of Change in Texas Government," Issue ED-12, 2-5 and except for the University of Houston-Downtown, Texas A&M 2-6 University at Galveston, and Sul Ross State University-Rio Grande 2-7 College. 2-8 (b) The Coordinating Board shall identify annually those 2-9 general academic teaching institutions that fail to satisfy the 2-10 classroom teaching load standards. Beginning fiscal year 1998, 2-11 formula-funded general appropriations revenue shall be reduced for 2-12 those general academic teaching institutions that fail to satisfy 2-13 the minimum classroom teaching load standards. Such reductions 2-14 shall be in proportion to the difference between actual and the 2-15 minimum required classroom teaching load standard, and until fiscal 2-16 year 2002, they shall be applied solely to the ten program areas as 2-17 recommended by the Texas Performance Review. Funds saved from such 2-18 reduction shall be deposited to the general revenue fund. 2-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 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.