Bill Text: TX SB1677 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to eliminating certain reporting and posting requirements for public institutions of higher education and other state agencies and the requirement for a plan by certain school districts to increase enrollment in public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-07 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB1677 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1677-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to eliminating certain reporting and posting requirements for public institutions of higher education and other state agencies and the requirement for a plan by certain school districts to increase enrollment in public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-07 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB1677 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1677-Comm_Sub.html
By: Buckingham | S.B. No. 1677 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2021; March 24, 2021, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education; | ||
April 19, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 19, 2021, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1677 | By: Paxton |
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relating to eliminating certain reporting and posting requirements | ||
for public institutions of higher education and other state | ||
agencies and the requirement for a plan by certain school districts | ||
to increase enrollment in public institutions of higher education. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 51.402(b), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) The governing board of each institution of higher | ||
education in the state shall adopt rules and regulations concerning | ||
faculty academic workloads. In adopting rules under this | ||
subsection, each institution shall recognize that classroom | ||
teaching, basic and applied research, and professional development | ||
are important elements of faculty academic workloads by giving | ||
appropriate weight to each activity when determining the standards | ||
for faculty academic workload. An institution may give the same or | ||
different weight to each activity and to other activities | ||
recognized by the institution as important elements of faculty | ||
academic workloads. [ |
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SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 61.0341 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 61.0341. LIMITATION ON DATA COLLECTION AND REPORTING | ||
REQUIREMENTS. (a) The legislature finds that data collection and | ||
reporting requirements for institutions of higher education must be | ||
limited and reduced to the extent feasible. | ||
(b) If the commissioner of higher education determines that | ||
the board has access to an alternative means of collecting data or | ||
receiving information to be included in a report sufficient to | ||
fulfill a requirement under this code, the board by rule may | ||
eliminate the reporting requirement for that data or information. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 659.0201(b), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b) A state agency that accepts a gift, grant, donation, or | ||
other consideration from a person that the person designates to be | ||
used as a salary supplement for an employee of the agency shall post | ||
on the agency's Internet website[ |
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donation, or other consideration provided by the person that is | ||
designated to be used as a salary supplement for an employee of the | ||
agency. The agency may not post the name of the person. | ||
SECTION 4. The following provisions are repealed: | ||
(1) Sections 29.904 and 51.4031, Education Code; and | ||
(2) Section 659.026, Government Code. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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