HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Public Education

TIME & DATE:  2:00PM or 1 hr after adjournment
             Tuesday, April 10, 2001

PLACE: E2.036

CHAIR: Rep. Paul Sadler

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To consider the following:

HB 79            Gallego
Relating to computation of the number of educationally
disadvantaged students in certain public school districts.

HB 379            Garcia
Relating to the funding allotment for bilingual education programs
in public schools.

HB 603            George / et al.
Relating to the treatment for school finance purposes of school
district optional homestead exemptions.

HB 604            George / et al.
Relating to the small and mid-sized district adjustment under the
public school finance system.

HB 660            Seaman / et al.
Relating to career and technology education and training.

HB 723            Turner, Sylvester
Relating to an allotment to school districts for use by teachers in
purchasing supplies used in classroom teaching.

HB 933            Solis, Jim
Relating to the inclusion of certain students attending magnet
schools in other districts in the computation of weighted average
daily attendance of the school district in which the students
reside.

HB 934            Solis, Jim
Relating to eligibility of school districts for state assistance
with payment of existing debt.

HB 1084            Hochberg
Relating to the cost of education adjustment.

HB 1276            Crownover, Myra
Relating to use of a student's legal surname in a public school.

HB 1346            Tillery / et al.
Relating to state assistance with the payment of school district
debt.

HB 1488            Kitchen
Relating to the issuance of bonds by school districts for the
purchase of school buses.

HB 1738            Kitchen
Relating to a study of the costs of providing transportation
services for public school students.

HB 2060            Crownover, Myra
Relating to returning a public school teacher to probationary
contract status.

HB 2201            Hochberg
Relating to the instructional facilities allotment and to state
assistance with the payment of existing debt of school districts.

HB 2564            Dunnam
Relating to school finance issues involving amounts withheld from
special allotments under the Foundation School Program.

HB 2565            Dunnam
Relating to the funding under the foundation school program of
certain special instructional arrangements for students with
disabilities.

HB 2704            Reyna, Arthur / et al.
Relating to the cost of education adjustment for a school district
that participates in the social security retirement program.

HB 2759            Smith
Relating to the date by which a school district must file its
annual audit report with the Texas Education Agency.

HB 2864            Sadler
Relating to the small and mid-sized district adjustment under the
public school finance system.

HB 2879            Sadler
Relating to school finance.

HB 2888            Truitt
Relating to certain limitations on the issuance of bonds by school
districts.

HB 2954            Hardcastle / et al.
Relating to state funding for school districts that have not more
than 400 students in average daily attendance.

HB 2955            Hardcastle / et al.
Relating to certain public school students receiving educational
services  from a school district other than the district in which
the students reside.

HB 3138            Hilbert
Relating to the costs of and reducing the need for remedial
education of high school graduates.

HB 3259            Green / et al.
Relating to the abolition of school district property taxes, an
increase in the rate of the state sales and use tax and the
application of the state sales and use tax to any transaction in
this state, including a sale for resale, involving real property,
and the distribution of the proceeds from the sales and use tax to
replace school district property tax revenue.

HB 3269            McCall / et al.
Relating to the equalized wealth level under the public school
finance system.

HB 3310            Dunnam
Relating to payment sources for a school district's local share of
debt service for which the district receives state assistance.

HB 3418            Grusendorf
Relating to the financing of public school facilities.

HB 3513            Hamric
Relating to state programs for assisting school districts with
paying the costs of public school facilities.

HB 3525            Hochberg
Relating to school district property values.

HB 3526            Hochberg
Relating to the truth-in-taxation and budget adoption publication
requirements for school districts with a July 1 - June 30 fiscal
year.

HJR 85            Bosse
Proposing a constitutional amendment to allow current and retired
public school teachers and college professors, and retired public
school administrators to receive compensation for serving on the
governing bodies of school districts, cities, towns, or other local
government districts.

HJR 98            Raymond
Proposing a constitutional amendment to dedicate net revenue from
the state lottery to public school purposes.

SB 108            Lucio / et al.
Relating to the first day of instruction of a school year for
public school students.

SB 562            Shapiro
Relating to computation and reporting requirements regarding a
school district's expenditures and personnel.

SB 1671            Jackson
Relating to the issuance of bonds by school districts for the
purchase of school buses.

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