BILL ANALYSIS


                                                        H.B. 1664
                                               By: Horn (Haywood)
                                                        Education
                                                         04-27-95
                                Senate Committee Report (Amended)
BACKGROUND

Currently, the governing board of an institution of higher
education is only required to post notice of its meeting with the
Secretary of State's office in Austin 72 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

As proposed, H.B. 1664 requires the governing board of an
institution of higher education to post notice of each meeting in
the county in which the meeting is to be held and in a student
newspaper of the institution.

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 551C, Government Code, by adding Section
551.055, as follows:

     Sec. 551.055.  INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.  Requires the
     governing board of a single institution of higher education to
     publish notice of each meeting at the county courthouse in the
     county in which the meeting will be held and in a student
     newspaper of the institution if an issue of the newspaper is
     published between the time of the posting and the time of the
     meeting, and authorizes the governing board to post notice in
     any other place convenient to the public.
     
     SECTION 2.     Makes application of this Act prospective beginning
October 1, 1995.

SECTION 3. Emergency clause.
           Effective date: upon passage.