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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.