By Rangel H.B. No. 1952 76R6602 CAG-F 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 the term in Section 61.003. 1-21 (b) A faculty member at an institution of higher education 1-22 has a right to present a grievance to the governing board of the 1-23 institution on an issue related to the nonrenewal or termination of 1-24 the faculty member's employment at the institution. 2-1 (c) An institution may not, by contract, policy, or 2-2 procedure, restrict a faculty member's right to present a grievance 2-3 under this section. An institution may adopt a method for 2-4 presenting, reviewing, and acting on a grievance filed under this 2-5 section. 2-6 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.