1-1  By:  Horn (Senate Sponsor - Haywood)                  H.B. No. 1664
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 1995;
    1-3  April 4, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Education; April 26, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 26, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                           By:  Armbrister
    1-7  Amend HB 1664 On Line 23  page 1 by striking the word "an" and
    1-8  inserting the phrase "a single" after the word "of".
    1-9  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 2                              By:  Haywood
   1-10  Amend HB 1664 as follows:
   1-11  1)  On page 1, line 27, after the word "institution" add the words
   1-12  "if an issue of the newspaper is published between the time of the
   1-13  posting and the time of the meeting".
   1-14                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-15                                AN ACT
   1-16  relating to notice of a meeting of the governing board of an
   1-17  institution of higher education.
   1-18        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-19        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 551, Government Code, is
   1-20  amended by adding Section 551.055 to read as follows:
   1-21        Sec. 551.055.  INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.  In addition
   1-22  to providing any other notice required by this subchapter, the
   1-23  governing board of an institution of higher education:
   1-24              (1)  shall post notice of each meeting at the county
   1-25  courthouse of the county in which the meeting will be held;
   1-26              (2)  shall publish notice of a meeting in a student
   1-27  newspaper of the institution; and
   1-28              (3)  may post notice of a meeting at another place
   1-29  convenient to the public.
   1-30        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
   1-31  to notice of a meeting held on or after October 1, 1995.
   1-32        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-33  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-34  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-35  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-36  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-37  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-38  passage, and it is so enacted.
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