Amend CSSB 16 on third reading in SECTION 2 of the bill, adding Section 51.982, Education Code, as follows:
(1) Strike Subsection (a) and substitute the following:
(a) In this section:
(1) "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
(2) "Institution of higher education" and "university system" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003.
(2) Strike Subsections (d) and (e) and substitute the following:
(d) The coordinating board by rule shall develop a procedure for an institution of higher education to receive and review complaints regarding a violation of this section by a faculty member of the institution. The procedure must:
(1) take into consideration due process rights under the United States Constitution and the Texas Constitution; and
(2) include a procedure by which the complainant or the faculty member who is the subject of the complaint may appeal the institution's determination regarding whether the faculty member violated this section to:
(A) the chancellor or other executive officer of the institution's system, if the institution is a component of a university system; or
(B) the president or other executive officer of the institution, if the institution is not a component of a university system.
(e) Each institution of higher education shall implement the procedure developed under Subsection (d).
(f) Not later than December 1 of each year, each institution of higher education shall submit to the legislature and the coordinating board a report on the complaints received by the institution under the procedure implemented under Subsection (e) during the preceding academic year.