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. 1-45 * * * * *