81R8840 KKA-F
 
  By: Aycock H.B. No. 2512
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to authorization to make an audio recording of a meeting or
  proceeding arising from a grievance reported by a public school
  employee.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 11.171, Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 11.171.  SCHOOL DISTRICT GRIEVANCE POLICY.  (a) A
  school district grievance policy must permit a school district
  employee to report a grievance against a supervisor that alleges
  the supervisor's violation of the law in the workplace or the
  supervisor's unlawful harassment of the employee to a supervisor
  other than the supervisor against whom the employee intends to
  report the grievance.
         (b)  A school district grievance policy must permit that an
  audio recording may be made of any meeting or proceeding at which
  the substance of a grievance that complies with the policy is
  investigated or discussed. The recording may be made by a district
  employee present at the meeting or proceeding or by the person
  conducting the meeting or proceeding. If a recording is made, each
  district employee or other person present at the meeting or
  proceeding must be informed before the recording begins that the
  recording will occur.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.