79R6465 JRJ-F

By:  Barrientos                                                   S.B. No. 634



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the compensation of administrators in public 
institutions of higher education and university systems.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is 
amended by adding Section 51.969 to read as follows:
	Sec. 51.969.  COMPENSATION OF ADMINISTRATORS IN 
INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND UNIVERSITY SYSTEMS.  (a)  In 
this section:
		(1)  "Administrator" has the meaning assigned by 
Section 51.948.     
		(2)  "Faculty member" has the meaning assigned by 
Section 51.960.    
		(3)  "Governing board," "institution of higher 
education," and "university system" have the meanings assigned by 
Section 61.003.
	(b)  To ensure that the administration of institutions of 
higher education and university systems is conducted in a 
cost-efficient manner, not later than December 1 of each fiscal 
year each institution of higher education and each university 
system office shall submit to the Legislative Budget Board in a form 
prescribed by the board a report including:
		(1)  the total number of persons holding a high-ranking 
administrative position at the institution or system office, 
including:
			(A)  chancellor;                                                      
			(B)  vice-chancellor;                                                 
			(C)  associate chancellor;                                            
			(D)  president;                                                       
			(E)  vice president;                                                  
			(F)  associate vice president;                                        
			(G)  assistant vice president;                                        
			(H)  dean;                                                            
			(I)  associate dean;                                                  
			(J)  assistant dean; and                                              
			(K)  any administrative position the job 
responsibilities of which are similar in nature to another position 
listed in this subdivision;
		(2)  the name, salary, and total value of nonsalary 
benefits for each person holding a position listed in Subdivision 
(1); and
		(3)  the percentage salary increase for each person 
named under Subdivision (2) who occupies the same position during 
the current fiscal year as during the preceding fiscal year.
	(c)  Each institution of higher education shall provide to 
the Legislative Budget Board, at the same time and in the same form 
as the report required under Subsection (b), a report including 
comparable salary information for the institution's faculty 
members.
	(d)  Using the information provided in the reports required 
under Subsections (b) and (c), the Legislative Budget Board shall 
determine the average salary increase in the fiscal year for all 
high-ranking administrators and for all faculty members at each 
institution of higher education and each university system office. 
The average salary increase, as determined by the Legislative 
Budget Board, for all high-ranking administrators employed by an 
institution of higher education that is not a component of a 
university system may not exceed in any fiscal year the average 
salary increase for all faculty members employed by that 
institution as determined by the board.  For a university system, 
the average salary increase for all high-ranking administrators 
employed within the system may not exceed for any fiscal year the 
average salary increase for all faculty members employed by the 
component institutions of the system.
	(e)  If the Legislative Budget Board determines under 
Subsection (d) that the average salary increase for high-ranking 
administrators employed by an institution of higher education or 
within a university system in any fiscal year exceeds the average 
salary increase for faculty, the governing board of the institution 
or system shall take appropriate steps the following fiscal year to 
correct the disparity.
	(f)  Not later than the seventh day after the date an 
institution of higher education has submitted to the Legislative 
Budget Board the reports required by Subsections (b) and (c), the 
institution shall submit a copy of the reports to the faculty senate 
or other comparable body and shall make a copy of the reports 
available to the public on the institution's Internet website 
through a link on the institution's Internet home page and in the 
main library of the institution.
	SECTION 2.  Not later than December 1, 2005, each public 
institution of higher education and university system in the state 
shall make the initial reports to the Legislative Budget Board 
required by Section 51.969, Education Code, as added by this Act.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.