80R7232 JRD-D
 
  By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1045
 
 
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to providing that a performance evaluation of the
commissioner of higher education or of a chancellor or university
president is confidential.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 552, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 552.1231 to read as follows:
       Sec. 552.1231.  EXCEPTION: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF
COMMISSIONER OF HIGHER EDUCATION OR CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF
INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION. A performance evaluation of the
commissioner of higher education or of the chief executive officer
of an academic institution of higher education, including a
university system, is confidential and excepted from the
requirements of Section 552.021.
       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 on the 91st day after the last day of the
legislative session.