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. 1-41 * * * * *