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         By Rangel                                             H.B. No. 1952
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1952:
         By Rangel                                         C.S.H.B. No. 1952
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the right of faculty members at institutions of higher
 1-3     education to present grievances on certain personnel issues.
 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 51.960 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 51.960.  GRIEVANCE RIGHTS ON CERTAIN PERSONNEL ISSUES.
 1-8     (a)  In this section:
 1-9                 (1)  "Faculty member" means a person employed full-time
1-10     by an institution of higher education as a member of the
1-11     institution's faculty or staff, including professional librarians,
1-12     whose duties include teaching, research, administration, or the
1-13     performance of professional services. The term does not include a
1-14     person who holds faculty rank but who spends the majority of the
1-15     person's time for the institution engaged in managerial or
1-16     supervisory activities, including a chancellor, vice chancellor,
1-17     president, vice president, provost, associate or assistant provost,
1-18     dean, or  associate or assistant dean.
1-19                 (2)  "Institution of higher education" has the meaning
1-20     assigned by Section 61.003.
1-21           (b)  A faculty member at an institution of higher education
1-22     has a right to present a grievance, in person, to a member of the
1-23     institution's administration designated by  the governing board of
1-24     the institution on an issue related to the nonrenewal or
 2-1     termination of the faculty member's employment at  the institution.
 2-2           (c)  An institution may not, by contract, policy, or
 2-3     procedure, restrict a faculty member's right to present a grievance
 2-4     under this section. An institution may adopt a method for
 2-5     presenting, reviewing, and acting on a grievance filed under this
 2-6     section.
 2-7           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-8           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-9     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.