** REVISION **
                                   SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Education

TIME & DATE: 11:00AM or 30 mins. after adjourn.
             Wednesday, May 12, 1999

PLACE: E1.012

CHAIR: Senator Teel Bivins

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A public hearing to consider the following:


HB 90            Driver / et al.          SP: Bivins
Relating to graduated driver's licensing.

HB 385            Walker                   SP: Duncan
Relating to speed limits for school buses.

HB 772            Davis, Yvonne            SP: Nelson
Relating to fees charged by an independent school district for
voluntary educational programs.

HB 1027            Solomons                 SP: Haywood
Relating to the authority of the board of regents of Texas Woman's
University to levy fees for student centers.

HB 1049            Sadler                   SP: Ratliff
Relating to designating the Texas State Technical College System
extension center in the city of Marshall as a campus of  the
system.

HB 1056            Dutton                   SP: West, Royce
Relating to the authority of a member of the governing board of a
public university system or institution of higher education.

HB 1418            Seaman                   SP: Armbrister
Relating to optional career and technology education programs
offered by public school districts and a study of career and
technology education programs.

HB 1542            Keffer                   SP: West, Royce
Relating to purchasing requirements for school districts and junior
college districts.

HB 1618            Keel                     SP: Wentworth
Relating to the creation of library districts.

HB 1689            Greenberg                SP: Ellis, Rodney
Relating to student loan repayment assistance for certain
child-care workers.

HB 1874            Hinojosa                 SP: Lucio
Relating to the operation and administration of The University of
Texas--Pan American.

HB 1882            Naishtat                 SP: Haywood
Relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
to approve formula funding for certain doctoral students.

HB 1961            Grusendorf               SP: Barrientos
Relating to fines collected for thwarting the compulsory school
attendance law.

HB 2260            Noriega                  SP: Gallegos
Relating to contracts for the replacement or repair of public
school equipment or public school facilities.

HB 2591            Rangel                   SP: West, Royce
Relating to skills assessment and placement testing of
undergraduate students entering public institutions of higher
education.

HB 2685            Coleman                  SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the execution of credit agreements and issuance of
anticipation notes by certain school districts.

HB 2992            Davis, John              SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the creation of a business technology outreach program
at the University of Houston.

HB 3551            Giddings                 SP: Ratliff
Relating to disposition of proceeds from read to succeed license
plates.

SCR 78            West, Royce
Creating the Special Commission on Twenty-First Century Colleges and
Universities.

HB 2021            Janek                    SP: Lindsay
Relating to the requirements for purchasing in school districts
that adopt site-based decision-making plans.

HB 2172            Luna, Vilma              SP: Cain
Relating to school district compliance with special education laws.

HB 2307            Keffer                   SP: Sibley
Relating to assistance to certain low-performing public school
districts.

HB 2547            Williams                 SP: Bernsen
Relating to the operation of the Geo-Technology Research Institute.

HB 3544            Hodge                    SP: Cain
Relating to student loan repayment assistance for certain dentists.

HB 3739            Greenberg                SP: West, Royce
Relating to ethics requirements in regard to management and
investment of the permanent school fund.

HB 3762            Gallego                  SP: West, Royce
Relating to granting college credit for completion of the Texas
Youth Commission resocialization program.

HB 2415            Keffer                   SP: Sibley
Relating to a junior college district branch campus, center, or
extension facility.

HB 2553            Hochberg                 SP: Bivins
Relating to performance reviews of school districts by the
comptroller.

HB 2261            Turner, Bob              SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to testing natural gas piping in certain school
facilities.

HB 3476            Averitt                  SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the testing of LP-gas piping systems in school
facilities.

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BILLS ADDED AFTER LAST POSTING:

SCR 78
HB 2021
HB 2172
HB 2307
HB 2547
HB 3544
HB 3739
HB 3762
HB 2415
HB 2553
HB 2261
HB 3476