77R11329 QS-D                           
         By Bailey                                             H.B. No. 2268
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2268:
         By Goolsby                                        C.S.H.B. No. 2268
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to minimum personal leave for faculty members at public
 1-3     institutions of higher 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 51.961 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 51.961.  MINIMUM PERSONAL LEAVE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
 1-8     FACULTY. (a)  In this section:
 1-9                 (1)  "Faculty member" has the meaning assigned by
1-10     Section 51.101.
1-11                 (2)  "Institution of higher education" has the meaning
1-12     assigned by Section 61.003.
1-13           (b)  The governing board of each institution of higher
1-14     education shall adopt a policy permitting faculty members to use
1-15     five sick leave days as personal leave days in each academic year.
1-16     In the policy, the governing board may permit faculty members to
1-17     use more than five sick leave days as personal leave days in each
1-18     academic year.  A faculty member may not use sick leave as personal
1-19     leave until the faculty member has accumulated a number of sick
1-20     leave days equal to or greater than the number of personal leave
1-21     days requested.
1-22           (c)  A policy adopted by the governing board of an
1-23     institution of higher education under this section may regulate a
1-24     faculty member's use of sick leave as personal leave if the policy
 2-1     does not restrict the purposes for which the personal leave may be
 2-2     used.
 2-3           (d)  The governing board shall develop an appropriate form
 2-4     for the use of sick leave days as personal leave days.
 2-5           SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2001-2002
 2-6     academic year.
 2-7           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
 2-8     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
 2-9     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
2-10     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-11     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.