MINUTES 
                                           
                         SENATE COMMITTEE ON STATE AFFAIRS 
                              Tuesday, March 21, 2000 
                                     9:00 a.m. 
                                   Senate Chamber 
                                           
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on State Affairs  
         was held on Tuesday, March 21, 2000, in the Senate Chamber at  
         Austin, Texas. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Florence Shapiro                Senator David Bernsen 
         Senator Eliot Shapleigh                 Senator Drew Nixon 
         Senator J. E. Brown 
         Senator David Cain 
         Senator Tom Haywood 
         Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr. 
         Senator Jeff Wentworth 
                                           
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         The Chair reconvened at 9:19 a.m.  There was a quorum present at  
         9:26 a.m., the following business was transacted:   
          
         The Chair and Senator Brown welcomed the members of the Senate  
         State Affairs Committee and the Senate Natural Resources  
         Committee and asked for opening remarks. 
          
         Those witnesses testifying and registering on the Natural  
         Resources' Clean Air Charge are shown on attached witness list. 
          
         At 9:32 a.m. Senator Armbrister assumed the chair for the  
         Natural Resources Committee.   
          
         At 9:34 a.m. Senator Brown resumed the chair.  
          
         At 11:23 a.m. Senator Brown assumed the chair for the State  
         Affairs Committee.    
          
         At 11:59 a.m. Senator Shapiro resumed the chair.   
          
         At 1:28 p.m. Senator Brown assumed the chair for the State  
         Affairs Committee.    
          
         At 2:43 p.m. Senator Shapiro resumed the chair.  
          
         There being no further business, at 3:27 p.m. the Chair moved  
  
         that the Committee stand recessed subject to the call of the  
         chair.  Without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
         Senator Florence Shapiro, Chair 
          
         Cindy S. Hodges, Clerk