SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice

TIME & DATE:  9:00AM, Tuesday, April 8, 1997

PLACE: E1.012

CHAIR: Senator John Whitmire

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To take up and consider:

SB 68            Moncrief
Relating to the priority given to the hearing of certain matters by
trial courts.

SB 89            West, Royce
Relating to a fictitious, forged, or counterfeit driver's license,
personal identification certificate, or other instrument; providing
penalties.

SB 322            Armbrister
Relating to the filing of a petition stating an essential need for
operating a motor vehicle.

SB 542            Barrientos
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of sexual assault.

SB 550            Moncrief
Relating to emergency protective orders.

SB 710            Brown
Relating to the creation of an offense involving certain sales of
tickets to certain events; providing a penalty.

SB 875            Shapiro
Relating to the applicability of the sex offender registration
program to certain defendants, to the procedures used to register
and monitor sex offenders, and to the imposition of criminal
penalties.

SB 1218            Patterson, Jerry
Relating to venue in the prosecution of the offense of issuing a
bad check.

SB 1579            Carona
Relating to the requisition for the return of a person charged with
crime in this state.

Pending business:

SB 80            Ellis
Relating to the prosecution of and punishment for an offense
motivated by bias or prejudice.

SB 123            Bivins
Relating to the treatment of repeat sex offenders.

SB 1156            Whitmire
Relating to comprehensive revisions to Subchapter B, Chapter 56,
Code of Criminal Procedure, the Crime Victims' Compensation Act,
and making an appropriation.

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