SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice

TIME & DATE:  9:00AM, Tuesday, April 15, 1997

PLACE: E1.012

CHAIR: Senator John Whitmire

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To take up and consider:

SB 108            Cain
Relating to conditions of community supervision, parole, and
mandatory supervision for certain violent offenders.

SB 367            Brown
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Commission on
Jail Standards.

SB 531            Cain
Relating to certain officers' duties for driver's license
suspension.

SB 810            Barrientos
Relating to the protection of certain unmarked burials and
associated human remains or funerary objects and to the creation of
certain offenses concerning unmarked burials; providing criminal
penalties.

SB 1009            Whitmire
Relating to correctional facilities that house inmates convicted of
offenses against the laws of another state of the United States.

SB 1010            Whitmire
Relating to the definition of "custody" for the purpose of
prosecuting the offense of escape.

SB 1546            Ogden
Relating to crime stoppers organizations and their reward funds.

SB 1676            Barrientos
Relating to the terms of office of the members of the Crime
Stoppers Advisory Council.

SB 1827            Shapleigh
Relating to characteristics of a defendant that may not be used by
a judge or jury to deny community supervision, and to
characteristics of a defendant that may not be used by a prosecutor
to urge a judge or jury to deny community supervision.

Pending business:

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

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

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