HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Economic Development

TIME & DATE: 10:30AM or upon adjournment,
             Tuesday, April 29, 1997

PLACE: E2.030

CHAIR: Rep. Rene Oliveira

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SB 265            Ellis / et al.
Relating to the linked deposit program.

SB 459            Ellis / et al.
Relating to the membership of a local workforce development board.

SB 747            Sibley
Relating to the administration and financing of certain industrial
development corporations; providing an administrative penalty.

SB 1519            Ellis
Relating to the authority of the Texas Workforce Commission to
accept donations.

SB 1877            Wentworth / et al.
Relating to creating a Texas community investment program to assist
certain businesses in distressed areas of the state.

SB 1490            Ellis / et al.
Relating to the administration of federal and state-funded
child-care programs and to training for local workforce development
boards.

SB 932            Sibley
Relating to abolishing the Texas Department of Commerce and
transferring its powers and duties to the newly created Texas
Department of Economic Development and Tourism and to certain other
economic development programs in the state.

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