By McReynolds                                         H.B. No. 3164
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to faculty compensation policies at institutions of higher
 1-3     education.
 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 51.9081 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 51.9081.  FACULTY COMPENSATION POLICIES UNTIL 2005.  (a)
 1-8     Not later than January 1, 2000, the governing board of each
 1-9     institution of higher education, as defined by Section 61.003,
1-10     shall determine whether the average salary of each faculty level at
1-11     the institution for the state fiscal biennium ending September 1,
1-12     1999, is less than the average salary for that faculty level paid
1-13     at public institutions of higher education by the 10 most populous
1-14     states, not including this state, according to the most recent
1-15     information available.  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating
1-16     Board shall assist the governing body of the institution in
1-17     obtaining the information necessary to administer this section.
1-18           (b)  If the governing body of an institution determines that
1-19     the average salary of a faculty level at the institution for the
1-20     state fiscal biennium ending September 1, 1999, is less than the
1-21     average salary for that faculty level paid by the other states, the
1-22     governing body shall report that determination and the relevant
1-23     data to the coordinating board.  The coordinating board shall adopt
1-24     a formula for that institution to reduce the percentage difference
 2-1     between the average salary of each faculty level by one-third in
 2-2     each of the next three state fiscal bienniums, to the extent funds
 2-3     are available, so that at the end of the third biennium the average
 2-4     salary of each faculty level at the institution is equal to or
 2-5     greater than the average salary of that faculty level paid by the
 2-6     other states.  The institution shall implement the formula or take
 2-7     other action necessary to achieve the same or greater average
 2-8     salary of each faculty level by the end of each biennium covered by
 2-9     the formula.
2-10           (c)  In establishing funding formulas under Section 61.059
2-11     for institutions to which this section applies, the coordinating
2-12     board shall account for any salary increases required to be made at
2-13     those institutions under Subsection (b).
2-14           (d)  This section expires September 1, 2005.
2-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-21     passage, and it is so enacted.