Bill Text: TX HB2059 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring general academic teaching institutions to study and report the feasibility of certain administrative staff budget reductions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-20 - Left pending in committee [HB2059 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2059-Introduced.html
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| By: Branch | H.B. No. 2059 | |
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| relating to requiring general academic teaching institutions to | ||
| study and report the feasibility of certain administrative staff | ||
| budget reductions. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 51.407 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.407. STUDY AND REPORT REGARDING FEASIBILITY OF | ||
| CERTAIN ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF BUDGET REDUCTIONS. (a) In this | ||
| section: | ||
| (1) "Administrative staff" does not include any staff | ||
| member who directly supports instruction or research at a general | ||
| academic teaching institution. | ||
| (2) "General academic teaching institution" has the | ||
| meaning assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
| (b) Each general academic teaching institution shall | ||
| conduct a study to evaluate the feasibility of reducing by 10 | ||
| percent the portion of the institution's annual operating budget | ||
| allocated for administrative staff. | ||
| (c) Not later than September 1, 2014, each general academic | ||
| teaching institution shall complete the study required by | ||
| Subsection (b) and submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, | ||
| the speaker of the house of representatives, the presiding officer | ||
| of each legislative standing committee with primary jurisdiction | ||
| over higher education, and the Legislative Budget Board a detailed | ||
| report summarizing the results of the study and identifying any | ||
| relevant issues the institution determines would be helpful in | ||
| making decisions concerning the feasibility of the budget | ||
| reduction. | ||
| (d) Section 51.404 does not apply to a report under this | ||
| section. | ||
| (e) This section expires January 1, 2015. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2013. | ||
