MINUTES 
                                           
                      SENATE COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS & COMMERCE 
                           Subcommittee on Border Affairs 
                             Tuesday, February 20, 2001 
                                     9:00 a.m. 
                     Lt. Governor Committee Hearing Room, 2E.20 
                                           
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on Business &  
         Commerce was held on Tuesday, February 20, 2001, in the Lt.  
         Governor Committee Hearing Room, 2E.20, at Austin, Texas. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr.                None 
         Senator John Carona 
         Senator Eliot Shapleigh 
                                           
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         The chair called the meeting to order at 9:00 a.m.  There being  
         a quorum present, the following business was transacted:   
          
         Business of the Senate Committee on Business & Commerce was  
         transacted.  
          
         At 9:55am, Business & Commerce Chairman Sibley passed the gavel  
         to Subcommittee on Border Affairs Chairman Lucio.  
          
         At 9:55 a.m., Senator Shapleigh assumed the chair.   
          
         The chair laid out SB517 and recognized the author, Senator  
         Lucio to explain the bill.  Senator Shapleigh sent up a  
         committee substitute; the chair recognized Senator Lucio to  
         explain the difference between the committee substitute and the  
         bill as filed. Senator Shapleigh moved that the committee  
         substitute be adopted; without objection, it was so ordered.  
          
         Witnesses testifying and registering on the bill are shown on  
         the attached list.   
          
         The chair moved that the public testimony be closed; without  
         objection, it was so ordered.   
          
         Senator Shapleigh moved that SB517 do not pass but that CSSB517  
         be reported back to the Senate Committee on Business and  
         Commerce with the recommendation that it be reported favorably  
         to the Senate.  The motion carried with a record vote of 2 ayes,  
         0 nay, 0 present not voting, and 1 absent.   
  
         Senator Shapleigh passed the gavel to Business and Commerce  
         Chairman Sibley; the Senate Committee on Business and Commerce  
         resumed business.