79R3233 KEL-F

By:  Janek                                                        S.B. No. 238



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to training for members of the governing boards of public 
institutions of higher education.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 61.084(a), Education Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
	(a)  The board by rule shall establish a training program for 
members of the governing boards of institutions of higher 
education.  Each member of a governing board of an institution of 
higher education [the members of which are appointed] shall attend, 
during the member's first two years of service as a member of a 
governing board of an institution of higher education, at least one 
training program under this section.  [A member of a governing board 
of an institution of higher education the members of which are 
elected may attend a training program conducted under this 
section.]  A member [of a governing board who is required to attend 
a training program under this section] may, but need not, attend 
additional training programs under this section.
	SECTION 2.  Notwithstanding the requirement in Section 
61.084(a), Education Code, as amended by this Act, that an elected 
member of a governing board of an institution of higher education 
attend a training program in the member's first two years of 
service, a person serving as an elected member of the governing 
board of an institution of higher education on the effective date of 
this Act shall attend a training program under that section not 
later than September 1, 2007, if the person has not previously 
attended a training program as permitted by that section as that 
section existed before the effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.