HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Agriculture & Livestock

TIME & DATE:  8:00AM, Monday, March 29, 1999

PLACE: E2.026

CHAIR: Rep. David Swinford

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To consider the following:


HB 672            Wise
Relating to an interim study of farmland preservation.

HB 2205            Hardcastle
Relating to the possession and transport of anhydrous ammonia and
to the use of anhydrous ammonia equipment; providing penalties.

HB 2407            Flores
Relating to the handling and marketing of vegetables and  fruit and
to the payment of claims from the Produce Recovery  Fund.

HB 2432            Swinford
Relating to label requirements for certain sorghum seed.

HB 2470            Ramsay
Relating to the regulation of registered veterinary nurses.

HB 2599            McReynolds
Relating to prescribed burning.

HB 2631            Turner, Sylvester
Relating to a grant program for agricultural projects in certain
public school districts.

HB 2719            Swinford
Relating to the promotion of Texas agricultural products; providing
a penalty.

HB 3050            Counts / et al.
Relating to the development of agricultural enterprises and
programs.

HB 3417            Counts
Relating to transfer of the Office of Rural Affairs to the
Department of Agriculture.





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