1-1 By: Barrientos S.B. No. 924 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 26, 2001; February 27, 2001, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education; 1-4 March 29, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, 1-5 Nays 1; March 29, 2001, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to a uniform strategy to ensure that public institutions 1-9 of higher education employ faculty and staff who reflect the 1-10 population of Texas. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is 1-13 amended by adding Section 61.0865 to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 61.0865. FACULTY AND STAFF UNIFORM RECRUITMENT AND 1-15 RETENTION STRATEGY. (a) The board shall develop and annually 1-16 update a uniform strategy to enable institutions of higher 1-17 education to identify, attract, hire, and retain faculty and staff 1-18 who reflect the population of this state. 1-19 (b) Each institution of higher education shall implement the 1-20 uniform strategy developed under Subsection (a). Each institution 1-21 shall report annually to the board the manner in which the 1-22 institution has implemented the uniform strategy. 1-23 SECTION 2. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board 1-24 shall adopt a uniform strategy to identify, attract, hire, and 1-25 retain faculty and staff who reflect the population of this state 1-26 as required by Section 61.0865, Education Code, as added by this 1-27 Act, not later than January 1, 2002. 1-28 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 1-29 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 1-30 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this 1-31 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 1-32 Act takes effect September 1, 2001. 1-33 * * * * *