The House Committee on Appropriations-S/C on Education 
         78th Legislature 
         February 20, 2003 
         8:30 a.m. 
         JHR, 140 
          
         Pursuant to a notice posted on February 14, 2003, and revised on  
         February 18, 2003, the House Committee on Appropriations-S/C on  
         Education met in a public hearing and was called to order by the  
         chair, Representative Pitts, at 8:57 a.m. 
          
         The roll was answered as follows: 
          
         Present:  Representatives Pitts; Branch; Brown, Fred; Deshotel  
                   (4). 
          
         Absent:   Representatives Gutierrez; Menendez (2). 
          
         A quorum was present. 
          
         Testimony was taken.  (See attached witness list.) 
          
         (Representative Menendez now present.)(Representative Gutierrez  
         now present.) 
          
         At 9:50 a.m., on the motion of the chair and without objection,  
         the meeting was recessed until the adjournment of the House,  
         February 20, 2003.   
          
         The committee reconvened at 11:13 a.m. and was called to order  
         by the chair, Representative Pitts. The roll was answered as  
         follows: 
          
         Present:  Representatives Pitts; Brown, Fred; Deshotel;  
                   Gutierrez; Menendez (5). 
          
         Absent:   Representative Branch (1). 
          
         A quorum was present. 
          
         Testimony was taken.  (See attached witness list.) 
          
         (Representative Branch now present.) 
          
         (Representative Brown, Fred in chair.) 
          
         (Representative Pitts in chair.) 
          
         At 4:07 p.m., on the motion of the chair and without objection,  
         the meeting was adjourned. 
          
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         Rep. Pitts, Chair 
          
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         Jess Calvert, Clerk