1-1     By:  Rangel (Senate Sponsor - Bivins)                 H.B. No. 1952
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 22, 1999;
 1-3     April 26, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Education; May 12, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable
 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0;
 1-6     May 12, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1952                  By:  Bivins
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the right of faculty members at institutions of higher
1-11     education to present grievances on certain personnel issues.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
1-14     amended by adding Section 51.960 to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 51.960.  GRIEVANCE RIGHTS ON CERTAIN PERSONNEL ISSUES.
1-16     (a)  In this section:
1-17                 (1)  "Faculty member" means a person employed full-time
1-18     by an institution of higher education as a member of the
1-19     institution's faculty, including professional librarians, whose
1-20     duties include teaching, research, administration, or the
1-21     performance of professional services.  The term does not include a
1-22     person who holds faculty rank but who spends the majority of the
1-23     person's time for the institution engaged in managerial or
1-24     supervisory activities, including a chancellor, vice chancellor,
1-25     president, vice president, provost, associate or assistant provost,
1-26     dean, or associate or assistant dean.
1-27                 (2)  "Institution of higher education" has the meaning
1-28     assigned by Section 61.003.
1-29           (b)  A faculty member at an institution of higher education
1-30     has a right to present a grievance, in person, to a member of the
1-31     institution's administration designated by the governing board of
1-32     the institution on an issue related to the nonrenewal or
1-33     termination of the faculty member's employment at the institution.
1-34           (c)  An institution may not, by contract, policy, or
1-35     procedure, restrict a faculty member's right to present a grievance
1-36     under this section.  An institution may adopt a method for
1-37     presenting, reviewing, and acting on a grievance filed under this
1-38     section.
1-39           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-40           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-41     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-42     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-43     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-44     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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