By: Wentworth	S.B. No. 1045
	(In the Senate - Filed March 1, 2007; March 14, 2007, read
	first time and referred to Subcommittee on Higher Education;
	May 2, 2007, reported favorably from Committee on Education by the
	following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 1; May 2, 2007, sent to printer.)

	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.
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