MINUTES 
                                           
                 SENATE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCE, SELECT 
                                Bivins Subcommittee 
                            Wednesday, November 14, 2001 
                                     9:00 a.m. 
                                   El Paso, Texas 
                                           
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on Public School  
         Finance, Select was held on Wednesday, November 14, 2001, in the  
         El Paso, Texas 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Teel Bivins                     Senator Steve Ogden 
         Senator Eliot Shapleigh                 Representative Kent  
                                                 Grusendorf 
         Senator Leticia Van de Putte            Representative Scott  
                                                 Hochberg 
         Will Davis                              Representative Harold  
                                                 Dutton 
         Craig Foster                            Kent Caperton 
         David Thompson                           
                                                  
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         The chair called the meeting to order at 9:02 a.m.  The  
         following business was transacted:   
          
         The Committee heard public testimony.  Witness list attached. 
          
         There being no further business, at 3:40 p.m. The Chair moved  
         that the Committee be adjourned. Without objection, it was so  
         ordered.   
          
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         Senator Teel Bivins, Chair 
          
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         Krissy Lilljedahl, Clerk