SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: State Affairs

TIME & DATE: 12:30PM or 30 min. after adj.
             Thursday, April 29, 1999

PLACE: Senate Chamber

CHAIR: Senator Florence Shapiro

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I.  To consider the following:


SB 837            Wentworth
Relating to the reapportionment of state legislative,
congressional, and judicial districts and the creation, function,
and duties of the Texas Redistricting Commission.

SB 1092            Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the establishment of a spaceport authority; granting
the power of eminent domain and the right to issue bonds.

SB 1220            Moncrief
Relating to highway beautification; providing civil penalties.

SB 1353            Barrientos
Relating to the regulation of the practice of software engineering.

SB 1520            Madla
Relating to the authority of certain cities, counties, districts,
authorities, agencies, and nonprofit corporations to enter into
lease-leaseback transactions.

SB 1828            Shapiro
Relating to government purchasing from people with disabilities.

SJR 27            Wentworth
Proposing a constitutional amendment to create the Texas
Redistricting Commission to establish legislative and congressional
districts and to revise the constitutional redistricting
provisions.

HB 264            Hochberg                 SP: Cain
Relating to a change of beneficiary by a retiree of the Employees
Retirement System of Texas.

HB 510            Hartnett                 SP: Cain
Relating to the composition of the Commission on Uniform State
Laws.

HB 833            Denny                    SP: Shapiro
Relating to the filing of an application for a place on the general
primary election ballot.

HB 1031            Hunter                   SP: Ellis, Rodney
Relating to the filing of sworn statements prescribed by the
constitution for public office and made by the directors of certain
special districts.

HB 1539            Pitts                    SP: Nelson
Relating to validating certain conveyances of land formerly used
for the superconducting super collider research  facility.

II.  Subcommittee reports:


SB 349            Nixon, Drew
Relating to allowing certain trailers to travel at the posted speed limit.

SB 791            Nixon, Drew
Relating to specific information logo signs in certain counties.

SB 923            Wentworth
Relating to supervision of a vehicle operator holding an
instruction permit.

SB 1511            Ogden
Relating to the powers of certain counties and rapid transit and
regional transportation authorities within those counties to adopt
or impose sales and use taxes.

SB 1872            Lindsay
Relating to the sale of certain toll roads by certain political
subdivisions.

HB 3092            Siebert / et al.         SP: Cain
Relating to the powers and duties of the Motor Vehicle Board of the
Texas Department of Transportation; imposing a penalty.

III.  Pending business:


SB 644            Haywood
Relating to creating a covenant marriage.

SB 838            Wentworth
Relating to service credit in the Judicial Retirement System of
Texas Plan One or the Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan Two.

SB 1364            Harris
Relating to out-of-state political committees.

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