HBA-EDN H.B. 2268 77(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 2268
By: Bailey
Higher Education
3/18/2001
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Current law provides a personal leave day program for public school
employees.  To provide such a program for faculty at institutions of higher
education that is modeled after the personal leave program for public
school employees may help increase faculty retention rates.  House Bill
2268 establishes a minimum personal leave program for faculty members at
public institutions of higher education.   

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

ANALYSIS

House Bill 2268 amends the Education Code to require each institution of
higher education (institution) to adopt a minimum personal leave program
consisting of five days of personal leave each academic year for faculty
members, and to authorize an institution to provide additional personal
leave to faculty members. The bill authorizes the governing board of an
institution  to adopt a policy regulating a faculty member's use of
personal leave, provided that the policy does not restrict the purposes for
which the leave may be used. The bill prohibits a faculty member from
carrying forward from one academic year to the next any unused accumulated
personal leave granted under these provisions.  

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act
takes effect September 1, 2001. 
The Act applies beginning with the 2001-2002 academic year.