SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice

TIME & DATE: 10:00AM, Wednesday, May 24, 2000

PLACE: E1.016

CHAIR: Senator Kenneth Armbrister

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I.  Call to order.

II. Invited / Public Testimony on the following charge:

CHARGE ELEVEN:
Monitor the implementation of the following bills enacted during the
76th Legislature, Regular Session:

SB 8 Relating to the compilation of criminal information pertaining to
criminal street gangs and criminal combinations;

SB 352 relating to requirements for membership on or employment by the
Board of Pardons and Paroles;

SB 365 relating to the continuation and the functions of the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice, the administration of the Private
Sector Prison Industries Oversight Authority, the administration of the
Texas Council on Offenders with Mental Impairments, and the civil
commitment of sexually violent predators;

SB 370 relating to the continuation and functions of the Department of
Public Safety;

SB 371 relating to the continuation and functions of the Correctional
Managed Health Care Advisory Committee; and

HB 2617 relating to the continuation of the Texas Board of Private
Investigators and Private Security Agencies as the Texas Commission on
Private Security, to the functions performed by that agency, and to
certain powers of political subdivisions relating to alarm systems.

III. Other Business
IV.  Adjourn / Recess









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