HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Higher Education

TIME & DATE:  4:00PM, Tuesday, March 25, 1997

PLACE: E2.016

CHAIR: Rep. Irma Rangel

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TO CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING:


HB 63            Kamel
Relating to authorizing certain public institutions of higher
education to operate a student debit card program.

HB 571            Rangel / et al.
Relating to exempting certain educational aides from tuition and
fees charged by institutions of higher education.

HB 762            Averitt
Relating to the preparation, sale, or distribution of academic
materials for profit.

HB 1384            Telford
Relating to the tuition charged to certain nonresident students
registered at certain upper-level public institutions of higher
education.

HB 1460            Delisi
Relating to the name of a public junior or community college.

HB 1486            Hilderbran
Relating to the service areas of certain junior college districts.

HB 1535            Bailey / et al.
Relating to courses and programs that may be offered at the
University of Houston-Downtown.

HB 1557            Hinojosa / et al.
Relating to the establishment of a Regional Academic Health Center.

HB 1686            Price
Relating to the repayment of certain teacher education loans.

HB 1820            Solis
Relating to the tuition charged to certain foreign students with
financial need at certain components of the Texas State Technical
College System.

HB 1883            Averitt / et al.
Relating to clarifying the name of the College of Dentistry
component of The Texas A&M University System.

HB 2053            Maxey
Relating to restrictions on the expenditures of funds for private
club memberships by an institution of higher education.

HB 2061            Van de Putte
Relating to requiring certain individuals to file a statement of
selective service status before enrolling in a public institution
of higher education or receiving certain financial assistance.

HB 2085            Palmer
Relating to exempting the children of certain disabled veterans
from tuition, fees, and other charges of a public institution of
higher education.

HB 2159            Uher
Relating to granting resident tuition status to children or
dependents of certain former Texas residents.

HB 2214            Delisi
Relating to fees for correspondence courses for certain veterans
and the children of certain veterans.

HB 2267            Bailey
Relating to changing the name of the Institute for Urban Studies at
the University of Houston to the Center for Public Policy.

HB 2315            Van de Putte
Relating to the student union building fees at The University of
Texas at San Antonio.

HB 2394            Delisi
Relating to course fees charged for certain courses at public
institutions of higher education.

HB 2410            Coleman
Relating to authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds for a nursing
and biomedical sciences facility at The University of Texas Health
Science Center at Houston.

HB 2527            Gutierrez
Relating to the establishment of the Texas Literacy Pilot Program
to exempt literacy tutors from tuition and fees at public junior
colleges and public universities.

HB 2528            Gutierrez
Relating to the validation of acts and proceedings of South Texas
Community College.


SB 474            Ogden
Relating to the payment of resident tuition and fees at state
institutions of higher education by children and spouses of certain
military personnel and by certain former military personnel and
their children and spouses.

SB 537            Ogden
Relating to contracts with and compensation of administrators of
public institutions of higher education.


ALSO CONSIDERING THE FOLLOWING BILLS ON PENDING BUSINESS:


HB 588            Rangel / et al.
Relating to uniform admission and reporting procedures for
institutions of higher education.

HB 621            Jackson / et al.
Relating to the transfer of the Texas Chiropractic College to The
Texas A&M University System.

HB 858            Goolsby
Relating to providing for open enrollment for a portion of those persons
admitted as undergraduates at certain public institutions of higher
education.

HB 1795            Kamel
Relating to The University of Texas at Tyler.

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