HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Business & Industry

TIME & DATE:  2:00PM, Tuesday, April 10, 2001

PLACE: E2.016

CHAIR: Rep. Kim Brimer

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The committee will consider the following:



HB 879            Dutton
Relating to requiring arbitration to establish a property owners'
association lien for assessments.

HB 1423            Bailey
Relating to mandatory mediation for certain disputes involving a
property owners' association.

HB 2084            Counts
Relating to delivery by local telephone exchange companies to
scholarship funds for rural students of money that is presumed to
be abandoned.

HB 2685            Bosse
Relating to prohibiting certain attorney's fees from being included
in the cost of foreclosure of a property owners' association's lien
and establishing a right of redemption in relation to the
foreclosure.

HB 2727            Hilderbran
Relating to removal of certain discriminatory provisions in the
dedicatory instruments of residential real estate subdivisions.

HB 2911            Reyna, Arthur
Relating to refund or retention by a landlord of a security deposit
under a commercial lease.

HB 3081            Burnam
Relating to imposing liens on aircraft for nonpayment of fuel
charges.

HB 3490            Solomons
Relating to filings made with the secretary of state by business
organizations.

SB 453            Armbrister
Relating to the use of sick or annual leave before receiving
workers' compensation benefits by an employee of the Texas
Department of Transportation.

SB 620            Jackson
Relating to extension of restrictions imposing regular assessments
in certain residential real estate subdivisions.

SB 624            Duncan / et al.
Relating to the prohibition of certain waivers by employers and
employees under the workers' compensation system.

SB 1323            Sibley
Relating to the recognition of certain foreign partnerships,
associations, and other entities and the enforcement of related
rights and obligations.

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