MINUTES 
          
                        SENATE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL 
                          RELATIONS, TRADE & TECHNOLOGY 
                             Thursday, May 15, 1997 
                         12:00 p.m. or upon adjournment 
                              Senator Truan's Desk 
                                 Public Meeting 
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         Pursuant to suspension of Senate Rule 11.11, a public hearing  
         of the Senate Committee on International Relations, Trade &  
         Technology was held on Thursday, May 15, 1997 in Senator  
         Truan's Desk, at Austin, Texas.   
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
              Senator Carlos F. Truan, Chairman       Senator Kenneth  
         Armbrister 
              Senator John Carona, Vice-Chairman      Senator Bill  
         Ratliff 
              Senator Teel Bivins 
              Senator Jon Lindsay 
              Senator Steve Ogden 
              Senator Eliot Shapleigh 
              Senator David Sibley 
          
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         Chairman Truan called a public meeting at 11:42 a.m. at his  
         desk to take up and consider HB 3478, relating to the  
         designation of a portion of State Highway 35 as the John B.  
         Coleman Memorial Highway.  Roll was called and a quorum  
         pronounced present.  Chairman Truan recognized Senator Carona  
         for a motion to report HB 3478 favorably to the full Senate  
         with the recommendation that it do pass and be printed.  The  
         motion carried with a vote of 6 ayes, 1 nay, 0 present not  
         voting, and 2 absent.  There being no other business before  
         the Committee, at 11:44 a.m. Senator Lindsay moved that the  
         Committee stand recessed subject to the call of the chair.   
         Without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
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         Senator Carlos F. Truan, Chair 
          
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         Carla D. Buckner, Clerk