BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 1664 By: Horn 03-04-95 Committee Report (Amended) BACKGROUND Currently, the governing board of an institution of higher education is only required to post notice of their meeting with the Secretary of State's office in Austin seventy-two hours before the event. The Texas Register prints the dates and times of these meetings. However, the print date is often after the meeting has occurred, thus people in the vicinity of the institution are not informed in a timely manner of the meetings. PURPOSE This bill requires the governing board of an institution of higher education to post notice of meetings at the local county courthouse. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Chapter 551 C, Government Code, by adding Section 551.055 to read as follows: Sec. 551.055. INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION. The governing board of an institution of higher education must post notice of each meeting at the county courthouse of the county in which the meeting will be held, and may post notice in a student newspaper of the institution and at other locations convenient to public access. SECTION 2. Effective date: October 1, 1995. SECTION 3. Emergency clause. EXPLANATION OF AMENDMENT Committee amendment No. 1 states that the governing board of an institution of higher education shall post notice in a student newspaper of the institution. SUMMARY OF COMMITTEE ACTION H.B. 1664 was considered by the committee in a public hearing on March 14, 1995. The committee considered one amendment to the bill. The amendment was adopted without objection by a non-record vote. The bill was reported favorably as amended, with the recommendation that it do pass and be printed and be sent to the Committee on Local and Consent Calendars, by a record vote of 8 ayes, 0 nays, 0 pnv, 1 absent.