BILL ANALYSIS


                                                         S.B. 238
                                                  By: Sibley/Cain
                                                        Education
                                                          1-25-95
                                     Committee Report (Unamended)
BACKGROUND

In October 1988, the Baylor Department of Public Safety (DPS) was
approved to operate as a campus police agency by the Texas
Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education.  The
73rd Legislature, Regular Session, while amending certain sections
of the Education Code, inadvertently decommissioned the Baylor
Medical School DPS.  Currently, Baylor has an emergency interim
agreement with the Dallas County Commissioners Court in order to
continue to provide police services.

PURPOSE

As proposed, S.B. 238 recreates the authority of the Baylor
University Medical Center to employ a campus law enforcement
agency.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not grant any
additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or
agency.

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends 51.214, Education Code, as follows:

     Sec. 51.214.  New title: SECURITY OFFICERS FOR MEDICAL
     CORPORATIONS IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.  (a)  Authorizes the
     governing board of a private nonprofit medical corporation
     that provides security services for an institution of higher
     education or private postsecondary educational institution and
     other entities located within the same medical complex in a
     municipality with a population of 1,000,000 or more, to employ
     and commission security personnel to enforce state law at the
     medical complex and its branches.
     
     (b)  Created from existing text.
       
SECTION 2. Emergency clause.
           Effective date: upon passage.