85R1665 KSD-D
By: Wu H.B. No. 711
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a limitation on the number of certain nontenured or
nontenure track faculty employed at public universities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 51.9085 to read as follows:
Sec. 51.9085. LIMITATION ON EMPLOYMENT OF CERTAIN
NONTENURED OR NONTENURE TRACK FACULTY. (a) In this section:
(1) "Faculty member" means a person employed full-time
or part-time by a general academic teaching institution whose
primary duties include teaching students enrolled at the
institution or research. The term does not include:
(A) a person who holds faculty rank but who
spends a majority of the person's time for the institution engaged
in managerial or supervisory activities, including a chancellor,
vice chancellor, president, vice president, provost, associate or
assistant provost, dean, or associate or assistant dean; or
(B) a person who is employed part-time to teach
while enrolled as a student of the institution.
(2) "General academic teaching institution" has the
meaning assigned by Section 61.003.
(b) During any academic year, not more than 25 percent of
the total number of faculty members employed by a general academic
teaching institution may be employed by the institution on a
nontenured or nontenure track basis under which the faculty members
are:
(1) compensated hourly or on another nonsalary basis;
and
(2) ineligible for the same employment benefits as a
tenured or tenure track faculty member.
(c) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may adopt
rules to administer this section.
SECTION 2. Section 51.9085, Education Code, as added by
this Act, applies beginning with the 2018-2019 academic year.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2018.