1-1     By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1115
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1999; March 11, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 26, 1999,
 1-4     reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 1; April 26, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1115               By:  Zaffirini
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to employee organization consultation policies adopted by
1-10     the boards of trustees of school districts.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Education Code, is
1-13     amended by adding Section 22.006 to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 22.006.  EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATION CONSULTATION POLICIES.
1-15     (a)  The board of trustees of a school district may adopt a policy
1-16     under which employee organizations are consulted concerning
1-17     district educational matters specified by the policy.
1-18           (b)  A policy the board of trustees adopts under this
1-19     section:
1-20                 (1)  must permit a representative of an organization
1-21     that represents public school employees to consult directly with
1-22     the board or the board's designee concerning educational matters
1-23     specified by the policy if at least five percent of the employees
1-24     in the district are members of the organization and the
1-25     organization is a nonprofit corporation incorporated under the
1-26     Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01 et seq.,
1-27     Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); and
1-28                 (2)  may not exclude from consultation an employee
1-29     organization described by this subsection.
1-30           (c)  The board of trustees may establish criteria to provide
1-31     for proportional representation of the employee organizations
1-32     described by Subsection (b) based on the number of employees in the
1-33     district who are dues-paying members of each organization.
1-34           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-35     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-36     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-37     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-38     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-39     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-40     passage, and it is so enacted.
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