| TO: | Honorable Royce West, Chair, Senate Committee on Subcommittee on Higher Education |
| FROM: | John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | SB1747 by Lucio (Relating to minimum personal leave for faculty members at public institutions of higher education.), As Introduced |
The bill would require the governing board of each institution of higher education to adopt a policy permitting faculty members to use five sick leave days as personal leave days in each academic year. A faculty member could not use sick leave as personal leave if at any time during the academic year the total number of sick leave days available to the faculty member falls below twenty. In addition, the faculty member and the institution of higher education would have to make every reasonable effort to provide without additional expense to the institution comparable instruction for any classes the faculty member may miss while taking personal leave under this section.
The institution would have to adopt a policy for recovering from the faculty member any expense incurred by the institution as a result of the faculty member's personal leave under this section.
Certain institutions of higher education estimate that the bill would cost them approximately $5,000,000 for the 2004-2005 biennium and require an additional 30 employees each fiscal year.
| Source Agencies: | 781 Higher Education Coordinating Board
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