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Amend CSSB 17 (Senate committee report) as follows:
In SECTION 2 of the bill, in amended Section 51.3525, RESPONSIBILITY OF GOVERNING BOARDS REGARDING DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION INITIATIVES. (page 3, line 16), add the following language after subsection (f):
"(g) Institutions of higher education shall annually report to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and publish prominently to their website the following:
a. The number of reported violations of this Act at the public institution of higher education.
i. The number of reported violations that were found to be supported by evidence.
ii. The number of reported violations that were found to be unsupported by evidence.
b. The status of the individual(s) who reported violations of this Act at the time the report was made, including whether they were an employee or student of the institution, or a parent or guardian of a student, or neither an employee, student, or student's parent of the institution.
c. The number of actions brought against the public institution of higher education pursuant to this Act.
i. The cost of litigating the actions brought against the public institution pursuant to this Act.
d. The number of faculty and employees disciplined, and the discipline imposed pursuant to this Act that is disaggregated by race, color, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), class, disability, nationality, immigration status, religion, or geographic region.
(h) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall create a complaint form, and prominently post on their website, for which faculty and employees of public institutions of higher education may submit claims of unreasonable enforcement of this Act.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall annually publish and make accessible on its website a report on the number and outcome of claims made pursuant to this Act disaggregated by race, color, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), class, disability, nationality, immigration status, religion, or geographic region."